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Healthcare as a human right

July 29, 2022 Access, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Human Right, United States, Universal Healthcare

Editor’s note: This is the first post in a two-part series. Read the second part here. The right to healthcare has long been recognized in

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Stuck in the middle: Principles for establishing a pediatric intermediate care unit

July 8, 2022 American Academy of Pediatrics, children and infants, children’s hospital, CMS recognition, critical care, critically ill, pediatric critical care, pediatric intensive care unit, Pediatric intermediate care units, Texas Children's Hospital

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?

July 1, 2022 clinical ethics, Medical Decision-Making, medical power of attorney, surrogate, surrogate decision maker

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

June 17, 2022 Accutane, Dietary supplements, FDA, regulations, supplements, Teratogenic risks, Vitamin A, Vitamin A supplements

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

June 10, 2022 Baruch A. Brody Award Lecture, bioethics, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, ethics, Houston Methodist Hospital, Rice University

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?

May 27, 2022 artificial intelligence, autonomy, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Morality, robotic technologies, Robots

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

May 13, 2022 COVID-19, Decision-making, Healthcare providers, Hospital Visitor Policies, Institutional Review Boards, policy

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

May 6, 2022 Clinicians, Food insecurity, military, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Veterans

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

April 29, 2022 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, Discrimination, ealth outcomes, Environment, Environmental Justice, ethics, Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Health, Marginalized Communities, policy

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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How to protect patients’ rights and abide by mental health laws

April 21, 2022 Consent, Informed Consent, Legal Requirements, Mental Health, Psychiatrists, Psychoactive Medications, Texas Health and Safety Code

How do you get consent for mental health services for psychoactive medications (i.e. medication with the capability to alter mood, anxiety, behavior or cognitive processes)