A 2011 Report on Pain by the Institute of Medicine indicates some 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain.Author Judy Foreman will publish a book on pain in 2013 and talks about it in this edition of The Bioethics Channel with Lorell LaBoub…
Blog.
Author Archive: Practical Bioethics
12/17/2012
A Book on Pain 2013
12/13/2012
Science/Spirituality/Good Mix?
Intersection of science and spiritualityDavid O. WiebersWashington PostDecember 6, 2012Throughout my scientific training and subsequent career, I found myself consistently gravitating not only to the science and medical sections of bookstores but …
12/12/2012
Medical interpreters
Medical interpreters help patients, doctors communicateKirsti Marohn and Stephanie Dickrell USA TodayDecember 9, 2012Link to Podcast: The Ethics of Cultural Competency, Michael Brannigan, PhD, The Bioethics Channel, May 4, 2012
12/11/2012
Death of Death Panels?
John CarneyPresident/CEO Center for Practical BioethicsDecember 11, 2012 Death panels — a term that certainly influenced the healthcare reform debate in 2009. Now we’re facing 2013 and implementation of the affordable care act, will the term …
12/04/2012
From POLST to TPOPP
Judy Citko, JDPOLST coalitions — Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment — are developing across the country. A conference on that subject was held in Kansas City November 16 2012 and one of the guests was Judy Citko, Executive Director,…
11/29/2012
Contracts for Pain Meds?
Maine doctors requiring random drug tests before writing prescriptions for pain pillsLindsay TiceSun JournalNovember 18, 2012In an effort to combat Maine’s high rate of prescription drug addiction, doctors are asking patients to sign a controlled-sub…
11/27/2012
An Ethical Blindness
President’s Bioethics Commission Posts Study Guide Related to its Historical Investigation of the 1940s U.S. Public Health Service STD Experiments in GuatemalaNovember 15, 2012The Commission’s findings and ethical assessment of those events, document…
11/26/2012
The "Slow Code" Debate
Half-hearted medical care for hopeless casesRobert CribbToronto StarNovember 25, 2012Dr. John Lantos, director of the Children’s Mercy Bioethics Center in Kansas City and co-author of a journal article titled “Should the ‘slow code’ be resuscit…
11/20/2012
New Kidney Allocation – Ethical?
New Kidney Allocation Proposal Is Ethically UnacceptableLAINIE ROSSUS News & World ReportNovember 12, 2012The designers claim their model will get it right about 75 percent of the time. Knowingly designing a model with a 25 percent error rate, when…
11/19/2012
A Voice of Pain — Maggie Buckley
The Institute of Medicine reports more than 100 millionAmericans suffer from chronic pain at a cost of up to $635 billion each year in medical treatment and lost productivity.In this edition of The Bioethics Channel with Lorell LaBoube we introduce a v…