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Your Wisdom vs Conventional Wisdom in Medical Ethics: Speak Up!
I have repeatedly stated on this blog that I felt that those who visit here and even those who don't all have views of medical ethics which when expressed are as valuable to consider as those presented by bioethicists. With that in mind, I am eager to present on my blog an exercise to discover... Read more...
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Four Elements in Statistics and Their Importance in Ethics of Medical Care
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Patient Modesty: Volume 6
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Chewing the Fat: Starting a Discussion of Ethical Issues in the Life-long Drug Treatments of Obese Children
The medical significance of obesity in children is found in the extract below from the Perspective section of the September 25, 2008 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine and available as a a href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/13/1309"free full article/a titledbr /“Storm... Read more...
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A Call for Help
I wonder if the visitors here have any idea what it is like to run a bioethics blog such as mine. I would like to give you an example of the experiences I receive as moderator. I have had many other similar experiences where a visitor has written me about their burdens and want my help to... Read more...
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"Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”
“Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”. This is the title of an article by John P. A. Ioannidis writing in the August 30 2005 issue of a href="http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-documentdoi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124"PLoS Medicine/abr /br /The Summary of the... Read more...
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Just Who Are We Medical Bloggers? An Answer
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Genetic Tests: Companies Selling the Test Directly to Consumers
Would you like to be tested for the GRK3 gene to know if you might get a bipolar psychiatric disorder? This gene variant at best is present in 15% of patients with bipolar disorder and 5% of all patients who do not have bipolar disorder. Psynomics advertises that for $399 they will test a sample... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Following the Signs: Standards of Medical Practice
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"Decay of American Culture" and Our Health Care System
Dr. Erich Loewy, physician-ethicist who has written to this blog several times in the past and who is very outspoken in expressing his beliefs has written another commentary which is an analysis of American culture and its consequences including its relation to medical care. Now, within the... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

Muslim Culture and the Practice of Medicine: Issues of Teaching a Muslim Medical Student in the United States
I teach first and second year medical students how to relate to patients, take a medical history and perform the physical examination. My medical school, as do all medical schools in the United States accept students from all different cultures and religions. There are various issues involved... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

Sleep: A Right, A Duty? Regulated by Law? Something to Medicalize?
Sleep, sleep, sleep. What do you know about both the physiologic but also the cultural aspects of sleep? To begin to learn about the “rights and duties of a sleeper”, go to the September 2008 issue of a href="http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/09/msoc1-0809.html"Virtual Mentor/a and read... Read more...
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