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The Code Blue Pharmacist

A patient coded at my hospital without having clear guidelines about what he wanted for treatment plan. It left the hospital staff in a flurry to receive verbal consent from his wife in order to treat him. Bedside ethics are important in cases where decisions about patient care need to be made rapidly. These types […]

May 13, 2022

Democratizing Bioethics: The National Student Bioethics Association Inaugural Conference

The National Student Bioethics Association (NSBA) was founded in 2021 as a not-for-profit initiative that aims to bridge gaps in access to bioethics programs, resources, discourse, and professional connections for interested students across the country. Our goals at NSBA are to: foster discussion of ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research provide resources to equip students with […]

May 9, 2022

Abortion: Welcome to the Sixties

In November 1964, 9 years before the right to an abortion was codified by Roe v. Wade, I was an intern in a busy, urban emergency room, when our team heard about a call for a “home delivery”. In the parlance of the hospital, I knew what that meant: probably a low-income Black teenager, fearful of […]

May 6, 2022

Are Bioethicists Obligated to Produce Public Scholarship?

It’s hard to say which topics that bioethicists research and write about should be published in popular news sources and made available to the general public, rather than hidden by a paywall. I am certain that there are some bioethical topics that the general public will absolutely care nothing about and our writing about them […]

April 17, 2022