Clarice, Author at Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network

No more silence: Confronting racism in medicine

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Medicine, Prejudice, Racism

As part of a new generation of healthcare workers tasked to provide care for everyone, regardless of race, gender, insurance status, or disability, medical professionals

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Racism: Not a pandemic, but a chronic disease

June 12, 2020June 12, 2020 Clarice 0 Comments African American, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Haley Jackson Manley, Racism

It’s more than just semantics that irks me when people talk about racism as a pandemic. A pandemic implies an outbreak. A disease that is

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Rationing of healthcare before, during and after COVID-19

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, COVID-19, Dr. Hadley Stevens Smith, Rationing

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, it became evident the United States would face difficult resource allocation decisions. Projected shortages of ventilators and beds in hospital

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Hungry to help: Food insecurity and COVID-19

May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Food Bank, Food insecurity, SNAP

In our hiatus from clinics, Baylor College of Medicine students have kept busy. Some have perfected hobbies, including baking, gardening, and golfing. Others have advanced

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How the humanities can connect us during a pandemic

May 15, 2020May 18, 2020 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Andrew Childress, Humanities, Narrative Medicine, Pandemic

Humans are no strangers to sudden outbreaks of deadly diseases. Yellow fever, smallpox, cholera, influenza, the list goes on. In times of crisis, we naturally

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An argument for reusable PPE

May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, PPE, Reusable, Supplies

“Do you want to come in?” the resident physician asked me as she held out one of the many blue plastic gowns. “No thank you,

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How should we balance morality and the law?

December 20, 2019December 19, 2019 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, ethics, law, Morality

I was recently discussing a clinical case with medical students and physicians that involved balancing murky ethical issues and relevant laws. One participant leaned back

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Reproductive technology: Exploring ethical questions

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, ethics, Infertility, Reproduction, Technology

We often hear about technology companies moving faster than their counterparts in politics, ethics and public safety. Self-driving vehicles will soon be on public roads

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Why Houston isn’t immune from the opioid epidemic

December 6, 2019December 5, 2019 Clarice 0 Comments Bethanie Shannon Van Horne, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Drug Addiction, opioids, overdose

“Kelly died of an overdose last night,” said a text recently from my childhood best friend, Kristen. This sparked the sixth conversation Kristen and I

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When is medical care futile?

November 22, 2019November 21, 2019 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Andrew Childress, Medical Care, Medical Futility, prolonging life

Nearly everyone has a to-do list of some kind that reflects goals that are important to them. When making choices about life-sustaining treatment (ventilators, dialysis