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June 18, 2013
As I pointed out in a recent post, experts have been debating what has caused the recent slowdown in medical spending in the United States. They are also try to figure out whether that slowdown will continue. And figuring this out is pretty darn import...
June 18, 2013
The “Advisory Board” of the network will be for the first time established. Nomination of the advisory board members (including self nomination) will be open to all members of the network by 30 June 2013. Advisory board is composed of ̷...
June 17, 2013
I cannot claim to have had anything more than a casual and intermittent personal acquaintance with Professor Pellegrino, whose passing this last week is a great loss for bioethics, medicine, academia, and the church alike. I did, however, have the priv...
June 17, 2013
Behavioral economists have written a lot about sunk costs. The idea is pretty simple: once people have invested in an effort – in time or money – they stick with that effort longer than is otherwise justified. They don’t want to feel like they’...
June 17, 2013
[Boston Globe] A group of Boston doctors is proposing to join a study that would provide emergency treatment for brain-injured patients without obtaining the trauma victims’ consent, arguing that they often arrive at the hospital unconscious or witho...
June 15, 2013
Nevada has just become the
latest state to legislatively adopt POLST. Last week, Nevada Governor
Brian Sandoval signed A.B. 344.
In April, Indiana also enacted a POLST statute. Before that, 18 states already had POLST statutes. &nb...
June 15, 2013
I have recently taken a break from reading books for book reviews to attend to some of the books in my own “library of unread books”–you know, those books that in the past you had to have, but then never got around to reading, most of...
June 15, 2013
You enter a grocery store and as you pass through the front door you find a beautiful display of luscious looking fresh fruits. You came to the market to buy some spare ribs and wine for supper but that is way in the back of th...
June 15, 2013
In both Maryland and Vermont, a clinician can write a POLST order indicating "no CPR" even without patient or surrogate consent. Regulations in both states authorize the entry of a "do not attempt resuscitation" order on a POLST on the basis that...
June 14, 2013
There are a few websites reporting that Edmund Pellegrino died yesterday. Wikipedia has attached a date of death to his entry. I can’t find any news sites independently confirming this, but if it is true, then a great voice for bioethics, and Chr...
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