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How providers are helping shape health policy

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 Clarice 0 Comments Advocacy, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Research, Science Policy

“The work of a physician as a healer cannot stop at the door of an office, the threshold of an

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My first rodeo: Reflections on the New York-Houston Clinical Ethics Consortium

March 8, 2019March 8, 2019 Clarice 1 Comment Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, clinical ethics, Clinical Ethics Consortium, New York, New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell, Rodeo

A few years ago, I asked a younger colleague if she was comfortable taking the lead on a project. She

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‘End Game’ brings palliative care discussions to small screen

March 1, 2019March 1, 2019 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Death, Dr. Andrew Childress, Ethicists, Hospice, Palliative Care

Although it failed to take home a statue at the Academy Awards, the documentary short film “End Game” is worth

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Code blues: When is CPR not useful?

February 22, 2019February 22, 2019 Clarice 0 Comments Cardiac Arrest, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Code Blue, CPR, Holland Kaplan, Residents, Resuscitation

Over the course of my medical residency, I have developed a profound dread of ‘Code Blues,’ which occur when a

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The millennial caregiver: An oxymoron?

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 Clarice 0 Comments caregiver, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Millennial

Millennials, like me, are set to become the largest generational group in the United States. Much has been said and

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The cost to reproduce: When finances affect medical and ethical choices

February 8, 2019February 7, 2019 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Claire Horner, Fertility, Insurance, IVF, Pregnancy, Reproduction

In the early days of assisted reproductive technology (ART), treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) were considered experimental and

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The Common Rule: Too commonly applied to pregnant women?

February 1, 2019February 1, 2019 Clarice 1 Comment Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, common rule, Isabel Canfield, pregnant

On Jan. 21, 2019, the body of law that protects people who participate in research (known as the Common Rule),

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How will you protect yourself on National Data Privacy Day?

January 25, 2019January 25, 2019 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Christi Guerrini, Genetics, National Data Privacy Day

Did you know that National Data Privacy Day is Jan. 28? Congress first recognized this day in 2009 to raise

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The odyssey of psychiatric advance directives

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 Clarice 0 Comments Advanced Directives, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Decision-making, Psychiatry

In Homer’s The Odyssey, Ulysses presumably asked his men to bind him to the mast of his ship and refuse

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Big, bad medical bills: Time for a legal fix?

January 11, 2019January 25, 2019 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, health policy, laws, Mary Anderlik Majumder, Medical Bills

In a classic Ry Cooder song, marriage is described as sufficient to transform one ‘Big Bad Bill’ into a ‘Sweet

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