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March 30, 2018

BioethicsTV (March 26-30): #TheGoodDoctor; #ChicagoMed

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
The Good Doctor (Season 1; Episode 18-Season Finale): Medical errors and battery; Chicago Med (Season 3; Episode 13): Who gets the heart?…

January 23, 2018

BioethicsTV (January 21-22, 2018): The Resident-Our Most Unethical Hospital System

The Resident (Season 1; Episode 1): The Most Unethical Hospital Ever

This new Fox show begins with newly minted MD Devon Pravesh’s first day at a fictional Atlanta hospital.…

November 22, 2017

BioethicsTV (November 20-22): The Good Doctor, Ill Behavior, Chicago Med

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

The Good Doctor (Season 1; Episode 8): Treating Hate
Browne is treating a patient brought into the ER who has been shot after he held up a convenience store.…

February 24, 2017

BioethicsTV: Substituted Judgment

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

On Grey’s Anatomy (Season 13, Episode 14) two cases lead to questions about who makes decisions for patients.…

January 13, 2017

BioethicsTV: Violating confidentialty, ethical decision-making, unapproved human experimentation

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

Chicago Med (Season 2; Episode 10): In this episode a heart patient returns from a previous episode when a heart is found for a transplant.…

January 6, 2017

BioethicsTV (January 2-6, 2017): Violating promises, coma v. PVS, transplant evaluation, and whether to abort

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

Pure Genius (Season1; Episode 10- 1/5). In this episode, Dr. Channarayapatra is working with a patient in lung failure.…

December 20, 2016

BioethicsTV (November 2016) Continued: Further commentary on Informed Consent

by Abhimanyu Amarnani

Chicago Med (Season 2, Episode 8, 11/10/16).

A December 1st BIOETHICSTV blog post briefly mentioned, Season 2, Episode 8 of Chicago Med.…

December 19, 2016

BioethicsTV: Pure Genius Proudly Ignores the Rules

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

“We’re Bunker Hill, since when do we follow the rules” sums up the attitude of this poor-performing medical drama that kicks ethics, law, and regulation to the curb on a weekly basis.…

December 1, 2016

BioethicsTV (November 2016): Informed consent, HIV organ transplants, Forgiveness, Assisted Suicide, Treating Prisoners, Undue Influence in Consent, and Failure to Vaccinate

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

Grey’s Anatomy (Season 13, Episode 9). A building collapses when a landlord has failed to make necessary repairs a year after an earthquake.…

October 28, 2016

BioethicsTV: 10/20 – Distributing organs, scope of practice, poverty, and kidnapping

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

Grey’s Anatomy (Season 13, Episode 5). In this episode June is an 80 year old woman who has been waiting for 3 years for a liver transplant.…

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Published Articles (12)

AJOB Neuroscience: Volume 8 Issue 4 - Nov 2017

Ahead of Our Time: Why Head Transplantation Is Ethically Unsupportable Paul Root Wolpe

AJOB Primary Research: Volume 8 Issue 3 - Sep 2017

Consent for organ donation after circulatory death at U.S. transplant centers George E. Hardart, Matthew K. Labriola, Kenneth Prager & Marilyn C. Morris

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 17 Issue 5 - May 2017

Caring for Patients or Organs: New Therapies Raise New Dilemmas in the Emergency Department Arjun Prabhu, Lisa S. Parker & Michael A. DeVita

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 16 Issue 11 - Nov 2016

The Ethics of Organ Donor Registration Policies: Nudges and Respect for Autonomy Douglas MacKay & Alexandra Robinson

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 16 Issue 11 - Nov 2016

Autonomy by Default Cass R. Sunstein

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 15 Issue 8 - Aug 2015

Persistent Problems in Death and Dying David Magnus

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 15 Issue 8 - Aug 2015

Addressing Consent Issues in Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death Kim J. Overby, Michael S. Weinstein & Autumn Fiester

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 14 Issue 10 - Oct 2014

Assessing the Likely Harms to Kidney Vendors in Regulated Organ Markets Julian Koplin

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 14 Issue 10 - Oct 2014

Selling Ourselves: The Ethics of Paid Living Kidney Donation Nancy S. Jecker

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 13 Issue 6 - Jun 2013

Toward a More Stable Blood Supply: Charitable Incentives, Donation Rates, and the Experience of September 11 Reuben G. Sass

News (413)

February 8, 2018 9:00 am

OHSU apologizes for 'archaic' policy, reverses course after denying undocumented woman liver transplant (The Oregonian)

Hours after learning that an undocumented women who has lived in Portland for 30 years had been denied a liver transplant because of her immigration status, Oregon Health & Science University officials terminated the policy that caused the denial and apologized.

January 26, 2018 9:00 am

Drug overdoses contribute to record number of organ donors (CNN)

There were more than 10,000 deceased organ donors last year, a 3% increase over the previous year and a 27% jump since 2007.

December 11, 2017 9:00 am

Medical Nightmare: Woman Contracted Pancreatic Cancer From Transplanted Organ, Lawsuit Claims (Newsweek)

People rely on organ donations to save their lives, but a California woman claims that her implanted pancreas gave her cancer, reported Courthouse News. The legal news service found court documents of the complaint, which was filed in the Sacramento Superior Court. Jeffrey Sevey, attorney for the plaintiff, confirmed to Newsweek that put in the paperwork.

December 7, 2017 9:00 am

'Thanksgiving miracle': Baby denied kidney receives transplant (CNN)

Two-year-old AJ Burgess received a new kidney Wednesday after a prolonged battle with hospital officials who postponed his original October surgery when his father, a perfect donor match, violated his parole and was arrested.

October 20, 2017 9:00 am

A 2-year-old’s kidney transplant was put on hold — after his donor father’s probation violation (Washington Post)

A father in Georgia who had prepared to donate a kidney to his 2-year-old son said last week that he is being forced to wait after a recent stint in county jail.

September 25, 2017 9:00 am

Scientists grow bullish on pig-to-human transplants (Science)

Add your name to a waitlist for a kidney transplant in the United States today, and you’ll join around 100,000 people, many of whom have already been waiting years. The scarcity of life-saving organs for transplants has raised hopes for substitute organs from pigs, which have a similar anatomy to humans. But decades of scientific setbacks have kept clinical trials of that approach, called xenotransplantation, on the horizon. Now, a few teams are chomping at the bit. Exhilarated by recent results in monkey experiments, some researchers here at a meeting of the International Xenotransplantation Association are eyeing human testing.

December 8, 2016 9:00 am

Genetically Modified Pigs Could Ease Organ Shortage (The Wall Street Journal)

The goal is to create pig islets that the human immune system won’t recognize as foreign, so they can be transplanted into people.

September 7, 2016 8:00 am

Frenchwoman who got world’s 1st face transplant dies at 49 (Washington Post)

Isabelle Dinoire, a Frenchwoman who received the world’s first partial face transplant, has died 11 years after the surgery that set the stage for dozens of other transplants worldwide. She was 49.

June 14, 2016 8:26 am

White House, private sector act to reduce organ transplant waiting list (Washington Post)

The White House and a group of universities, companies and nonprofits announced new steps Monday to reduce the wait time for an organ transplant, including a $160 million Pentagon program to develop ways to repair and replace cells and tissue.

March 25, 2016 11:39 am

Most Americans Would Donate a Kidney for Cash

For more than 20 years, it’s been illegal to give or accept money for organ donation in the U.S. The law was intended to prevent wealthy patients from having a better chance of receiving donor organs than their less affluent counterparts. As a result, many experts say there is now a shortage of most organs. Case in point: kidneys, the only full organ that can be transplanted from someone who is still alive and not significantly impact the donor’s long-term health. Deaths from end-stage renal disease can easily be prevented with a donor, but the line for one is very long.

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