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Frederick Smith

UC Davis Health System Feature Story: Professor Ben Rich assumes bioethics endowed chair - 0 views

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    Ben Rich - from law to health law & bioethics. See also: Rich BA. Prognosis terminal: truth-telling in the context of end-of-life care. Camb Q Healthc Ethics 2014;23:209-19.
Frederick Smith

My letter, and others, about effort to defund ACA, & gov't shutdown - 0 views

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    My letter focuses on bioethical principles. ACA seeks to promote beneficence & justice (and decrease the maleficent impact of our nation's decision, so far, to allow 15% of the population to remain without health insurance, and suffer its deleterious health consequences).
Frederick Smith

AZ Nun Excommunicated For Allowing Abortion : NPR - 0 views

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    A nun at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix has been excommunicated for allowing an abortion to be performed on a woman who doctors say would otherwise have died. Sister Margaret McBride may also be expelled from her order. Now, there's a debate about the church's quick, severe penalty while it waited years to punish pedophile priests.">
Frederick Smith

Among Doctors, Fierce Reluctance to Let Go - by P.Span - 0 views

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    Even when the system works as it's supposed to, and palliative care specialists arrive like the cavalry to provide comfort care, to stop fruitless and painful interventions and to support what patients want, their own colleagues may brand them murderers. It takes strong doctors to stand up to that kind of verbal abuse, to explain that courts and ethics committees have approved care that's intended to reduce suffering, to point out that the patient's own wishes are paramount. Perhaps they have to be stronger than we know. "The culture is changing," Dr. Matlock told me. "But it's not changed yet."
Frederick Smith

on Peter Singer, bioethicist, as "Professor of Death" - Books & Culture - 0 views

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    J.L.A. Garcia sees as wicked the viewpoint he attributes to Singer: "He has little use for most of the central elements of ethical sensibility and compunction, seeing rights and virtues as mere instruments in the service of maximizing the satisfaction of interests; and indeed he vigorously rejects the notion that there are distinctively human values-a view he dismisses as the pernicious consequence of "speciesism."
Frederick Smith

ECONOMICS & UNIN - 0 views

ECONOMICS & UNINSURED An individual's lack of health insurance affects everyone in the country economically, so requiring it is constitutional.  When the uninsured person goes to the ER, t...

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started by Frederick Smith on 06 Jan 11 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

A TRAGIC TRAVESTY: I - 0 views

A TRAGIC TRAVESTY: INSURER DENIES COVERAGE FOR A 22-Y.O. WOMAN'S RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AS A "PRE-EXISTING CONDITION"     20 years ago I had an unforgettable patient experience that co...

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started by Frederick Smith on 06 Jan 11 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

Pharma with a chance of meatballs - 0 views

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    Hilarious 3-D cartoon of PHARMA's efforts to force Mass. legislature to repeal ban on drug reps "free lunches" for docs, to push brand-name drugs - in the name of "helping restaurants during the recession."
Frederick Smith

Responses to P. Chen, http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/letting-doctors-make-the... - 0 views

1  . Old Colonial Texas, now August 11th, 2011 1:10 pm What is critical here is the concept of long-term relationships between doctors and their patients, which most states are now destr...

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started by Frederick Smith on 15 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

Well: Letting Doctors Make the Tough Decisions, by Pauline Chen - 0 views

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    Autonomy has limits - pts want docs to exercise expertise.
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