The path forward: a more inclusive healthcare system
Editor’s note: This is the second post in a two-part series. Read the first part here. In January 2020, the American College of Physicians (ACP)
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Healthcare as a human right
Editor’s note: This is the first post in a two-part series. The right to healthcare has long been recognized in many countries around the world
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Stuck in the middle: Principles for establishing a pediatric intermediate care unit
In 2019, joint authors from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Critical Care (SOCC) and the Society of Critical Care Medicine published an
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Do you really want a clinical ethicist to be your medical power of attorney?
This is the story of how I became my aunt’s medical power of attorney. It was almost 10 p.m. on a Tuesday, and my phone
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Dietary supplements, vitamin A, and regulation: a call to action
Dietary supplements in the United States are considered foods by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and thus they are not subject to the same
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Celebrating bioethics and its role in our society
Across the globe, bioethicists are passionately researching answers to new challenges, asking difficult questions and uncovering new approaches that may one day alter how we
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Is Terminator inevitable?
If you think about ethics and robots, what comes to mind? “The Jetsons?” “2001: A Space Odyssey?” “Terminator?” I recently led a bioethics journal club
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Alone at the hands of healthcare: hospital visitor policies during the COVID-19 pandemic
March 2021, a phone call from Caleb Iness: “Hey Audra, my friend’s dad is in the hospital with a stroke and no one can visit
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Screening and treating food insecurity in the clinic setting: a starting point
Imagine what it would be like if you opened your cupboards or refrigerator and found barely enough food to pull a single meal together. What
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Environmental justice: How physical, social, and structural surroundings impact health
The environment—everything from the water we drink to the conditions in which we live—impacts health. Environmental justice is a broad term or movement that at
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