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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

A Fitting Final Gift From Jimmy Carter

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He showed us that hospice is not something to fear. When former President Jimmy Carter  entered hospice care  in February, many assumed tha...
Sunday, September 3, 2023

JK continues his gene editing "mission"

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CwtF_ilhbv8/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Bad news, good news

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Friday, August 11, 2023

Forms

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Friday, June 23, 2023

Digging up bones

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My Last Shopping List for Him "…When we bury our loved ones in Greece, tradition requires that we exhume the bones after three years fo...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Cure, sure; but...

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Monday, June 19, 2023

What's in a name?

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Should Medicine Still Bother With Eponyms? The names of Nazi-era doctors are still found on diseases and body parts. By expunging them, wil...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Broken

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CtgcSMStSbZ/?igshid=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA==
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Doctors Are Using Chatbots in an Unexpected Way

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Despite the drawbacks of turning to artificial intelligence in medicine, some physicians find that ChatGPT improves their ability to communi...

Bad Blood: the story of eugenics in the USA

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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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https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109551240176991160
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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