Heart Health and Women

Cardiac disease is an excellent example of sex/ gender health disparities. Cardiac disease is not unique in women - it is the number one kil...

Doctor-Patient Sex and Quality of Care

The Providence (Rhode Island) Journal blog reported that Dr. Brian Kwetkowski, a family physician, relinquished his medical license after i...

Medicalizing Normal Grief

I've never met Allen Frances, whose distinguished psychiatric career has included chairing the DSM IV Task Force and the Department of P...

Accountable Care Organizations and Medical Ethics In New Hampshire

The action in health reform has passed to the states. Twenty states, nineteen of them led by Republican Attorney Generals cultivating future...

Justice and Full Vindication for Whistleblowing Nurses

In February I wrote about how physician Rolando G. Arafiles, hospital administrator Stan Wiley, and Winkler County (west Texas) Sheriff Robe...

Intimate Partner Violence - More and Deadlier For Women

Violence against women is an enormous health issue in the United States. According to an FBI report in 2001 , nearly a third of female homic...

Steven Slater, Air Travel, and Organizational Ethics

One day after Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater cursed out a passenger, grabbed a beer, and then bolted from the plane by sliding down...

Mental Health Parity Won't Work Without Ethical Managed Care

It's hard to tell the "good guys" from the "bad guys" in implementing the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental He...

"The Kids are All Right" and Doctor-Patient Sex

A few days ago my wife and I saw the new film "The Kids are All Right" at the charming little (100 or so seats) Savoy Theater in ...

WikiLeaks and Medical Ethics

WikiLeaks , the secure website that publishes documents leaked by whistleblowers, has been front page news since it published 92,000 secret ...