The Wall Street Journal Weighs In about St. Joseph's Hospital

I've been following the controversy between Bishop Olmsted of the Phoenix Diocese and St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix and its paren...

In Praise of St. Joseph's Hospital and the Sisters of Mercy

Although I believe that Bishop Olmsted was wrong from the perspectives of both secular and Catholic medical ethics when he decreed that St. ...

A Worthy Conflict about Abortion in Arizona

The level of public debate about health care ethics has been in a sorry state in recent years, as evidenced by the Kaiser Family Foundation ...

Fatwa on the Fat Wallets; the Dismantling of the Middle Class in America

How the latest proposed tax cuts lead to the dismantling of the middle class in America President Obama’s latest capitulation to the greed o...

Theological Showdown over Abortion in Arizona

Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, the Catholic Bishop of Phoenix, has thrown down a theological gauntlet to St. Joseph's hospital. If the hospit...

Judge Hudson's Monstrous Decision

Judge Hudson's ruling yesterday in the Federal District Court in Richmond that the insurance mandate is an assault on liberty is a moral...

Mammography Appointments Available for LBT community on Saturday, December 11th

Join Us Mobile Mammography, Breast exams and Pap tests Saturday, December 11th, 9-3pm The Wild Rose 1115 East Pike St Seattle, WA 98122 De...

Christmas Tree Ethics

My friend and colleague Steve Moffic , gave me permission to quote this holiday season post from "Behavioral Healthcare." A Multi...

National Healthcare Reform; City Fresh Food Initiative; the Impact on Women

a little bit more about our speakers..... Dr. Berkson joined the College of Medicine in 2006 as the program director of the Family Medicine ...

Doctor-Patient Sex in ObGyn Care

I decided to reply to a comment that just came in about a post I wrote on doctor-patient sex in 2009 in a new post. The topic has drawn a l...

Greedy Geezers vs Granny Bashers

To protect the future of Medicare and contain runaway Medicare costs we need thoughtful deliberation and responsible advocacy. Instead, what...

Living with Chronic Illness - Julian Seifter's Wise Guidance

I've never met Dr. Julian Seifter, but over the years I heard about him from patients with kidney disease who he treated. (He's a ne...

Psychiatrists, God, and Lying

A psychiatrist in Texas submitted an important question to Randy Cohen's "The Ethicist" column today. I've taken the libe...

The FBI and Martin Luther King

I recently came upon a letter I had written to the Washington Post, published on June 14, 1969. (I was living in Washington at the time, dur...

After Visit Summary - Little Things Mean a Lot

When I was in high school, the singer Kitty Kallen had a #1 hit - " Little Things Mean a Lot ." The ballad is decidedly uncool by ...

Making Accountable Care Organizations Acceptable to the Public

The most recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has a valuable article about the "Patient's Role in Accountable Care ...

Fall 2010 Attitudes Toward Health Care Reform and its Possible Repeal

With the Republicans having regained a majority in the U.S. House and narrowed the Democrats' majority in the Senate last Tuesday, there...

Advocating for the Future of Medicare

I've admired Randy Cohen's "The Ethicist" column in the New York Times Magazine ever since he started it more than ten yea...

On Not Hiring Smokers

Five days ago I wrote a post defending the new Massachusetts Hospital Association policy decision not to hire tobacco users. I usually agre...

Nanny Employer or Public Health Leader?

The Massachusetts Hospital Association announced yesterday that as of January 1, tobacco users will not be eligible for employment. The blo...

State by State Analysis of Patient Rights under 2010 Reforms

State Reactions to 2010 Health Care Reforms A virtual firestorm has ensued with state reactions to some of the federal government mandates u...