No Treatment as the Treatment of Choice

In the October 3 issue of JAMA, Allen Detsky and Amol Verma offered " A New Model for Medical Education: Celebrating Restraint ." ...

More about the Massachusetts "Death with Dignity" Act

Last week I wrote  about the Massachusetts "Death with Dignity" ballot initiative. For those who are interested in the initiative ...

Is it OK for GP's to have sex with their patients?

For anyone interested in the ethics of doctor-patient sex and the relationship between ethics and law, the recent 5-1 decision of the Supre...

Massachusetts Death with Dignity Ballot Initiative

My home state of Massachusetts has an initiative on the November ballot that would establish a "death with dignity" law closely m...

Presidential Debate Uno-What Did they really say about health care?

A few months ago I wrote an article entitled Why We Don’t Want to Get Rid of Medicare, Our Best Tool For Health Care Reform which alluded t...

Death by bedsores

The September 15 issue of The Lancet has a fascinating article  by Arthur Caplan, who is now at the Division of Medical Ethics at New York ...