The Ethics of Choosing Wisely and Practicing Efficiently

This month the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation (ABIM) joined with nine medical specialty societies, each of which released a ...

Making Doctors more Ethical

The Association of American Medical Colleges ( AAMC ) has redesigned its Medical College Admission Test ( MCAT ) for the first time since 19...

Anne Sexton's Therapy Tapes

After arguing in a recent  post that poet Anne Sexton's therapist did the right thing in releasing tapes of her therapy to Diane Middle...

University of Wisconsin Physicians Disciplined

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported yesterday that the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health disciplined 20 phys...

Euthanasia and suicide

On March 29 Charles Snelling killed Adrienne, his wife of 61 years (the mode of her death has not been publicly revealed) and then shot hims...

Autism, Access to Services, and Social Justice

Yesterday the CDC released a  report on the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) that demonstrates a continuing increase in ASD di...

Republican pollster David Hill urges complete-repeal supporters to look beyond responses to dichotomous (yes/no) opinion-survey questions o...

Talking Points Memo reviews recent polling on health care reform, finding that "the public’s opinion on health care reform is disparat...

Patient Autonomy after Death - the Case of Anne Sexton

I hadn't thought about the controversy surrounding Diane Middlebrook's biography of Anne Sexton since its publication in 1991 until ...

A new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows greater opposition than support for the 2010 health care law, by a 52-41% margin. In addition to ...