Elizabeth Layton – PULLING THE PLUG – 1987
“Symbolic of the many means of keeping a body functioning. Restraint is a necessity. She has wasted minutes, hours, months. Would she want to add all that wasted time to this very end?”
#Bioethics News: A new congressional report claims that WHO’s guidelines on treating pain were directly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry, including a set of directions for prescribing powerful painkillers that appear to have been taken #PurduePharma
#Bioethics News: Plastic surgeons’ Instagram accounts of the weekend trip didn’t note the drug company’s sponsorship, which some ethicists say should be disclosed. https://t.co/JHQKMcbntP
#Bioethics News: A common dietary supplement may help overcome mutations in the Pten gene. Should patients take it?
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"A choice architect nudges people when she deliberately steers them in a specific direction..."
from Bart Engelen's TA about Health-Promoting Nudges. Read the whole thing via https://t.co/Twax8sTGdV
#behavioraleconomics #nudges #choicearchitecture #healthpromotingnudges
#Bioethics News: The rise of the more potent fentanyl in its place has put a generation of older users, who had managed their addiction, at far greater risk of overdose. https://t.co/mvOpqXjzxS
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