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63The Self, Social Media, and Social ConstructionAmerican Journal of Bioethics 12 (10): 38-39. 2012.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 10, Page 38-39, October 2012
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16A Surgeon's DilemmaHastings Center Report 46 (3): 9-10. 2016.A thirty-year-old single mother with recurrent, metastatic, treatment-refractory cancer presents to the emergency room with severe difficulty breathing due to an obstructive tumor in her neck, compounded by progressive disease in her lungs and a new pulmonary embolism. She cannot be safely intubated and would require an emergent awake tracheotomy. Even if the airway can be successfully secured surgically, the likelihood that she will be able to be weaned from mechanical ventilation is very low. …Read more
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75Neuroethics and neuroimaging: Moving toward transparencyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (9). 2008.Without exaggeration, it could be said that we are entering a golden age of neuroscience. Informed by recent developments in neuroimaging that allow us to peer into the working brain at both a structural and functional level, neuroscientists are beginning to untangle mechanisms of recovery after brain injury and grapple with age-old questions about brain and mind and their correlates neural mechanisms and consciousness. Neuroimaging, coupled with new diagnostic categories and assessment scales a…Read more
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81Islam and Informed Consent: Notes from DohaCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 17 (3): 273-279. 2008.Informed consent is a perennial topic in bioethics. It has given the field a place in clinical practice and the law and is often the starting point for introductory instruction in medical ethics. One would think that nearly everything has been said and done on this well-worn topic
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49In Praise of the Humanities in Academic MedicineCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 22 (4): 355-364. 2013.
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31Everyday DisastersCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 14 (2): 207-213. 2005.“That's my dad on the floor.”And there he was unconscious in a pool of blood in the bathroom. A paramedic who had accompanied him to the john was holding him off the ground, the USMC tattoo on his forearm cradling his head. My sister shrieked, and I went down on my knees to see about his airway. “We need a doctor here. Cardiac Team!” Could this really be happening to him? To us? Jesus Christ
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17What's Wrong with Evidence‐Based Medicine?Hastings Center Report 46 (1). 2016.Medicine in the last decades of the twentieth century was ripe for a data sweep that would bring systematic analysis to treatment strategies that seemingly had stood the test of time but were actually unvalidated. Coalescing under the banner of evidence-based medicine, this process has helped to standardize care, minimize error, and promote patient safety. But with this advancement, something of the art of medicine has been lost
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24Border Zones of Consciousness: Another Immigration Debate?American Journal of Bioethics 7 (1): 51-54. 2007.
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4The Authors ReplyHastings Center Report 44 (2): 4-4. 2014.Reply to a commentary by Kate Robins‐Browne.
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