The Challenges of Treating Homeless Patients
For most of our patients, the Student Run Homeless Clinic is the…
Do Physicians Lie?
Yes. Professions that heretofore enjoyed public admiration for pursuing noble work and…
Angelina Jolie, BRCA1, Public Health and Patent Law
Going public with her story of a prophylactic double mastectomy after testing…
Vermont Poised to Pass End of Life Legislation
Vermont becomes the fourth state to legalize a physician’s ability to prescribe…
Are Biosimilars Ethical?
Generic drugs have been an effective cost containment solution for traditional, small…
Pause Before Posting: New Social Media Position Paper Guides Physicians
Physicians have been quick to embrace online technology personally, but on the…
Two Common Sources of Overtreatment
Experts, most recently former CMS administrator Don Berwick, tell us that no…
Plan B’s Balancing Act
The FDA’s recent ruling allowing the Plan B emergency contraceptive to be sold…
8 Ways to Avoid Ethical Pitfalls in Social Media – Part One
Do the ethical rules of law apply to medicine? Do the ethical…
Have Physicians Lost Their MoJo?
Medical decision-making is a complex process, poorly understood by non-physicians, and often…
