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40A Systematic Review of State and Manufacturer Physician Payment Disclosure Websites: Implications for Implementation of the Sunshine ActJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 42 (2): 208-219. 2014.Public disclosure of industry payments to physicians is one way to address financial conflicts of interest in medicine. As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Physician Payment Sunshine Act requires pharmaceutical, medical device, and biologics manufacturers who have at least one product reimbursed by Medicare or Medicaid to disclose payments to physicians and teaching hospitals on a public website starting in 2014. The physician payment data will contain individual physi…Read more
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4Harvard Medical School Public Forum: Insuring the Uninsured: Does Massachusetts Have the Right Model? 17 May 2007Journal of Clinical Ethics 18 (3): 270-293. 2007.
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87Religious perspectives on embryo donation and researchClinical Ethics 5 (1): 35-45. 2010.The success of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) worldwide has led to an accumulation of frozen embryos that are surplus to the reproductive needs of those for whom they were created. In these situations, couples must decide whether to discard them or donate them for scientific research or for use by other infertile couples. While legislation and regulation may limit the decisions that couples make, their decisions are often shaped by their religious beliefs. Unfortunately, health profes…Read more
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8A Health Care Systems Approach to Improving Care for Seriously Ill PatientsNarrative Inquiry in Bioethics 10 (1): 79-88. 2020.
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18The Impact of Physician Social Media Behavior on Patient TrustAJOB Empirical Bioethics 11 (2): 77-82. 2020.
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Responding to Religious Reasons in MedicineDissertation, The Johns Hopkins University. 2003.The central question of this work is how should physicians respond to patients' religious beliefs when those beliefs cause patients to act in a manner that is at odds with what most of the community regard as reasonable? I use the example of a Jehovah's Witness who refuses a life-sustaining blood transfusion as a paradigm case of a religiously grounded disagreement about medical care. In chapter 1, I explain the reasons for Jehovah's Witnesses' refusal of blood and lay out three responses to the…Read more
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6Family dynamics and surrogate decision-makingIn D. Micah Hester & Toby Schonfeld (eds.), Guidance for healthcare ethics committees, Cambridge University Press. 2012.
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Harvard UniversityRegular Faculty
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |