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Thursday, May 25, 2023

Normal docs

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Every time I go to the #doctor in #Denmark I'm always shocked at the difference between US #healthcare and EU healthcare in how stressed...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

“a culture of resistance to change”

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"…As my residency progressed, my doubts about my chosen profession only mounted. Time and again, my colleagues and I found ourselves co...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

Degraded personhood

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"The Turing test cuts both ways. You can’t tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you’ve just lowered your own standards of intelli...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’

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In his most extensive interview yet, Anthony Fauci wrestles with the hard lessons of the pandemic — and the decisions that will define his l...
Saturday, March 18, 2023

The Aftermath of a Pandemic Requires as Much Focus as the Start

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We rallied the world to invest in emergency relief. Now we must rally the world to invest in recovery. Atul Gawande https://www.nytimes.com/...

A bioethics professor weighs in on the Last of Us finale

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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/3/17/23641685/last-of-us-finale-hbo-fireflies-bioethics-joel-ellie-arthur-caplan-pedro-pascal
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Henrietta Lacks replaces Robt E Lee

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Sunday, December 11, 2022

Anthony Fauci: A Message to the Next Generation of Scientists

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…  At ‌81, I still can clearly recall the first time I drove onto the bucolic N.I.H. campus in Bethesda, M‌‌d., in June of 1968 as a 27-year...

We Can Cure Disease by Editing a Person’s DNA. Why Aren’t We?

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But for the next few years, devastating genetic ailments and cancer are where CRISPR clinical trials must remain; ethical considerations ove...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Prognosis

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CktxD7xh5ws/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
Friday, October 21, 2022

Much Work Remains

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    Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics ⁦‪@bermaninstitute‬⁩ We Advised Biden on the Pandemic. Much Work Remains to Face the Next Cr...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

The neglected clitoris

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Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don't Doctors Study It? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/health/clitoris-sex-doctors-surgery.html?...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

America Is Choosing to Stay Vulnerable to Pandemics - The Atlantic

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Recently, after a week in which  2,789 Americans died of COVID-19 , President Joe Biden proclaimed that "the pandemic is over."  A...

Scientists Knew More About Covid-19 Than We Think. And They Still Do.

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"Nobody," Donald Trump claimed in a March 2020 address, "had any idea." He was talking about the Covid virus — which had...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Tweet by NPR on Twitter

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    NPR ⁦‪@NPR‬⁩ Researchers say diseases that spread between humans and animals, like COVID and monkeypox, will become increasingly commonp...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

‘Very Harmful’ Lack of Data Blunts U.S. Response to Outbreaks

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'Very Harmful' Lack of Data Blunts U.S. Response to Outbreaks Major data gaps, the result of decades of underinvestment in public he...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Her Discovery Changed the World. How Does She Think We Should Use It?

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…What about the ethics of all those gene-editing possibilities? That's something you've been talking about for years now, but what w...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

A huge side benefit of the new climate bill

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Air pollution sickens and kills millions every year. Here’s how the new measure will help tackle the problem. ...the law will avert heart a...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Why Storytelling Is Part of Being a Good Doctor

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Doctors are people too. "…the word 'doctor' comes from the Latin 'to teach.' By writing stories, we as doctors aim to t...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

Time for a national public health system

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Since the early months of the covid-19 pandemic, it's been clear that the U.S. public health system needs major improvements. Now, a  bl...