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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)

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Reimagine what our world’s potential can be

April 15, 2022 Dorit Donoviel, Education, Future, Kelly Hackett, Philanthropist, philanthropy, Residency Program, Ronald Cotton, space, Success, Surgery, TEDx, TEDXBaylorCollegeofMedicine, TRISH

What more can we do to make a difference, not only in our own lives but in the lives of people all over the world?

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Reframe what it means to achieve in life and promote your own health

April 8, 2022 Cheryl Lyn Walker, Environment, epigenome, Evolution, Genetics, Greg Brenneman, Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Health, Life, Purpose, TEDx, TEDXBaylorCollegeofMedicine

Our world is changing at an alarmingly rapid pace and each of us are changing as well. Two recent talks as part of Baylor College

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Reboot your thinking about mental health, the future of our health and health security

April 1, 2022 Amy McGuire, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Genetics, Global Health, Human Geno Sequencing Center, Mental Health, public health, Richard Gibbs, Sharmila Anandasabapathy, TEDx

How willing are you to reboot the way you have always done things? Our society is currently experiencing a reboot – challenging basic assumptions about

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Ethics in a post-COVID world

March 11, 2022 bioethics, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, clinical ethics, ethics, Intensive, training

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a host of ethical challenges in the healthcare setting. Ethical concerns include triage decisions, shortages of key resources, hospital visitor

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Revisions to CDC opioid guidelines and reflections from a pain specialist

March 4, 2022 CDC, Chronic Pain, opioids, Pain, Pain Specialist, Prescribing

Last month, the CDC backed down on strict opioid guidelines amid backlash from providers and chronic pain patients. As a pain specialist, I’ve seen firsthand