by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

The Good Doctor (Season 3; Episode 3): Informing a resistant parent; The Resident (Season 3; Episode 3): The Creepy Dr.…

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

The Good Doctor (Season 3; Episode 2): Ensuring Informed Consen;The Resident (Season 3: Episode 2): Publicity Surgery and Community Benefit; Almost Family (Season 1; Episode 1): Reproductive Fraud; New Amsterdam (Season 2; Episode 2): Death by Neighborhood; Chicago Med (Season 5; Episode 2): Health Humanities 5 seconds of fame

The Good Doctor (Season 3; Episode 2): Ensuring Informed Consent

Josh is a young adult male whose face was destroyed when he defended a woman being assauted on the bus.…

The Good Doctor (Season 3; Episode 1): Cancer Diagnosis and Dementia; The Resident (Season 3; Episode 1): Profit over patients; New Amsterdam (Season 2; Episode 1): Social Justice; High Cost of Insulin; Carol’s Second Act (Season 1; Episode 1): Stereotyping Age; Grey’s Anatomy (Season 16; Episode 1): Too soon to die; ageism

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.…

This post is presented in collaboration with the American Journal of Bioethics. You can read the entire issue by clicking here.…

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

According to the British Library, “Cabinets of curiosities, also known as ‘wonder rooms’, were small collections of extraordinary objects which, like today’s museums, attempted to categorise and tell stories about the wonders and oddities of the natural world.”  Two television shows open the cabinet to give the world a glimpse of medical oddities—the unusual cases that are hard to diagnose.…

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

The film, “The Farewell” claims to be a movie “based on an actual lie”. Billi is a first generation Chinese-American twenty-something artist living in New York near her parents.…

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

New Amsterdam (Season 1; Episode 22): Max’s Impossible Choice<; Chicago Med (Season 4; Episode 21): Choosing between life and certain death

New Amsterdam (Season 1; Episode 22): Max’s Impossible Choice

Max Goodwin is at home resting from his chemotherapy after stepping down temporarily from his medical director position.…

Exploring ethical issues in medical dramas

The Resident (Season 2; Episode 23): Unrepresented patient and substance abuse; Chicago Med (Season 4; Episode 20): Violating a patient’s autonomy; organ trafficking

The Resident (Season 2; Episode 23): Unrepresented patient and substance abuse

A middle-aged man comes to the ER unable to speak and without ID.…

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

Exploring bioethical issues in television medical dramas

New Amsterdam (Season 1; Episode 19): Privatizing the VA; The Resident (Season 2; Episode 22): Organ buying; Grey’s Anatomy(Season 15; Episode 23): Insurance Fraud

New Amsterdam (Season 1; Episode 19): Privatizing the VA

A veteran has a stroke while driving and injures a police officer.…

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

Jump to The Resident (Seasons 2; Episode 20): Maternal mortality in black women; Jump to New Amsterdam (Season 1; Episode 18): Gestational surrogacy

The Resident (Season 2; Episode 20): Maternal mortality in black women

A young black family is in the OB ward for a C-section to deliver their second baby.…