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Physician Aid In Dying: Whither Legalization After Brittany Maynard?
Inside the Gray Zone: Reflections on Gautham Suresh’s Narrative Matters Essay
Narrative Matters: A Doctor Faces Tough Decisions On Infant Resuscitation
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Physician Aid In Dying: Whither Legalization After Brittany Maynard?
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Friday, January 30, 2015. The conference brought together leading experts to review major developments in health...
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Inside the Gray Zone: Reflections on Gautham Suresh’s Narrative Matters Essay
Note: This piece was written in collaboration with John. Lantos, director of the Bioethics Center at Children’s Mercy Hospital. “I just caution you that we don’t know what we don’t know.” These words came from one of my senior faculty members at Children...
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Narrative Matters: A Doctor Faces Tough Decisions On Infant Resuscitation
In the October Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay , a neonatologist must decide whether to revive a premature baby on the borderline of viability. Gautham Suresh's article is freely available to all readers; or you can subscribe to iTunes and...
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Misguided Genetic Exceptionalism
While society should be careful about its uses of genetic testing and its efforts to modify the genome, some people overreact when dealing with DNA. Consider two recent examples reported in the media. A genetic cancer test. In a fascinating series on...
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Narrative Matters: Drug Company Payments To Physicians
In the December Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay, multiple sclerosis patient Maran Wolston describes how she lost trust in her physician when she found out he was receiving payments from drug companies. Wolston says she was fortunate to be able...
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Narrative Matters: Reporting Child Abuse
In the newest Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay, a seventeen-year-old West African immigrant who’s off to college says her facial bruising was inflicted by her father, and a young pediatrician learns about — and rethinks — the process...
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Shock Me, Tube Me, Line Me: An ER Doc Reassesses DNRs
“In Shock Me, Tube Me, Line Me,” a Narrative Matters essay in the February 2010 issue of Health Affairs, emergency physician Boris Veysman sets forth his own version of an advance directive and challenges common perceptions about care at the end of life...
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