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Category Archives: Medical ethics

  • It is reported that half of Americans will refuse to be vaccinated for Covid-19. Is this ethical? To comment on this dilemma, leave a response. [...]

    Refusing Coronavirus vaccine

    August 24, 2020
  • Over 30,000 persons in 140 countries have volunteered for human challenge trials of Covid-19 vaccines, according to the organization 1Day [...]

    Human challenge trials

    June 27, 2020
  • Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a number of states and cities require customers who enter a store to wear a mask. Yet there is resistance.  Some [...]

    Masks and freedom

    June 16, 2020
  • People are saying that we are “past the peak” with Covid-19.  Given this, when is the right time to reopen the economy? To comment on this [...]

    When to reopen the economy?

    April 23, 2020
  • The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing us to look again at the ancient dilemma of triage.  Which patients should get priority when there is a shortage [...]

    Allocating scarce medical resources

    April 13, 2020
  • Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, sheltering at home when possible is a government mandate in some areas, and voluntary in others.  If it is [...]

    Is home stay an ethical obligation?

    March 28, 2020
  • My cousin has been helping a friend with depression for 6 months. However, my cousin started school recently and has a very busy schedule of 6 [...]

    How much sacrifice for a friend?

    June 14, 2017
  • In a for-profit healthcare environment, we are constantly in a balancing act between doing what’s right for our patients and what’s [...]

    Medicaid vs privately-insured patients

    September 5, 2015
  • My grandmother suffered an intracranial hemorrhage that left her severely brain damaged and unable to communicate.  With no living will or [...]

    Withdrawing life support

    August 13, 2015
  • About 1000 universities in the U.S. follow the recent trend of having a tobacco-free campus. This means that no one is allowed to use any form of [...]

    Tobacco-free campus

    March 5, 2015

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