More About the "Engage with Grace" Project

Yesterday I joined with other bloggers in a "blog rally" to (a) encourage ourselves and our readers to talk with those we are clos...

A Tool for Discussing Wishes for End of Life Care

Paul Levy, President and CEO of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and author of the superb " Running a Hospital " blog, tol...

Coming Soon - An Overdue Debate About Free Market Health Care

Today I learned that PhRMA, the pharmaceutical lobbying group, is about to launch a multimillion dollar PR campaign on behalf of free-market...

Hospital Branding, Money, and Ethics

A recent article by the Boston Globe investigative "Spotlight Team" about the differential payments Partners Health Care receives...

Self-Insured Employers and Medical Ethics

This is the annual open enrollment time at many employers. (I have to make my own insurance choices for next year by Friday.) In the past, e...

The American Psychiatric Association and Mental Health Parity

The latest issue of "Psychiatric News," the American Psychiatric Association's newspaper, has an informative article on the r...

Medical Tourism, Self-Insured Employers, and Medical Ethics

Wellpoint , which provides health insurance to 35 million, is starting to pilot medical tourism. The initial numbers are small - Serigraph ...

Activist Disease Foundations, Rationing, and Medical Ethics

Yesterday's New York Times had a moving article about the Parkinson's Disease foundations formed by actor Michael J. Fox and former...

Hospitals, Ethics, and the Uninsured

Three cheers for print journalism! For a rich understanding of the human impact of not having health insurance, look at the superb (but long...

Ethics and Extortion

Express Scripts, one of the largest pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies in the U.S., recently reported a security breach and a black...

Jewish Law and the Meaning of Death

This morning's Washington Post has a poignant story about 12 year old Motl Brody who - by brain criteria - has died. Motl's parents...

2008 Election Recap

Wow! Eighty percent of registered voters in Washington State showed up at the polls yesterday. The 2008 elections were a Republican’s nightm...

Women, Health Insurance, and Health System Ethics

The recent report that women pay much more than men of the same age for individual health insurance has led to a spate of outraged articles...