Health Care in Singapore

I've had the good fortune to be invited by the Singapore Centre for Biomedical Ethics to do a week of teaching about health system ethi...

Psychoanalysis in China

A headline in yesterday's Washington Post caught my eye - " Freud coming into fashion in China ." Until I saw the article, I...

The Medical Council of India Sets Tough Rules about Pharma

Rema Nagarajan, a journalist friend who writes for the Times of India, brought to my attention a recent ruling of the Medical Council of Ind...

Tragic Choices at Grady Hospital (2) - Undocumented Patients with End Stage Renal Disease

As I've described in a previous post ( here ), Grady Hospital in Atlanta closed its dialysis clinic on October 3. Grady is a prototypica...

Should President Obama come out of the Closet on Rationing?

An editorial in yesterday's Washington Post challenges President Obama to come out of the closet about rationing and fess up to the Amer...

Praying with and for patients

I recently attended an inspiring forum sponsored by Andover Bread Loaf , "a private, non-profit organization based at Phillips Academy ...

"Skin in the Game"

Here's a story that could be the basis for a class about the U.S. health care "system." My interlaced comments are in bold it...

Euthanasia, Murder and Medical Ethics

Early this morning I read a student essay on "End-of-Life Care" for this week's medical ethics class at Harvard Medical School...

What Can Medical Ethics Contribute to Health and Health Care in India?

Yesterday I attended a conference at Harvard Business School - "The Indian Growth Story: Sleeping Elephant or Roaring Tiger?" I...

Drug Trials in India - a Video Interview with Amar Jesani

Anyone interested in the ethics of clinical trials in developing countries should look at this five minute video of an interview with Amar ...

Teaching Medical Ethics in India

During the four weeks I've just spent in India (I'm at the Amsterdam airport now, on my way home) I asked two questions about ethics...

Responding to Medical Mistakes in India

For anyone interested in (a) India and (b) medical ethics, (c) the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME), which is available online , is t...

Ethics at the Swami Vivekananda Hospital

I'm in Mysore, in the South Indian state of Karnataka, for eight days, at the Vivekananda Institute of Indian Studies. The Institute is ...

A Mild Wrist Slap for Pharma in India

Last month, before coming to India (where I am now) I wrote about the drug marketing scene. The posting gave a link to an article in the Ti...

Psychiatric Ethics in Mumbai

Because of (a) my clinical specialty (psychiatry) and (b) the fact that I'll be spending time in Mumbai next month, the headline "...

Health Care Rights in India and the U.S.

In yesterday's post on "Drug Marketing in Mumbai" I mentioned that I'm reading ethics literature from India in preparation...

Drug Marketing in Mumbai

I'll be in India for a month in 2009. One purpose of the trip is to learn about medical ethics education, ethics committees and the broa...

NICE is teaching the world about health care limits

Today's New York Times has a fascinating article about the firestorm triggered by NICE's decision not to cover Sutent, an cancer dru...

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...

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 ...