Clinical Ethics, Decision making, Editorial-AJOB, Philosophy & Ethics
Substituted Judgment and Uncomfortable Truths
This editorial appears in the November 2025 Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics “What would they say, if we could...
Subject: Clinical Ethics
Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, Education, Professional Ethics
The Need for Accreditation Standards for Clinical Ethics Fellowship Programs
This editorial appears in the October 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics A half-century into its ...
Clinical Ethics
Clinical Health Care Ethics: Time to Reset
Revitalizing Health Care Ethics: The Clinician’s Voice (2025), by Stephen Scher of Harvard Medical School and Kasia Kozl...
Clinical Ethics, Policy, Politics, Vaccines
No surprise: RFK Jr will find some nonsensical reason to link autism to vaccines
At his confirmation hearing to be the 26th Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Ken...
Children/Adolescents, Clinical Ethics, Psychiatric Ethics
Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Are Morally Wrong
There is a powerful political movement in this country to prevent transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming car...
Clinical Ethics, Psychiatric Ethics
Psychiatric Advance Directives as an Instrument for Care and Justice
Over fifty years ago, Luis Kutner, the progenitor of medical advance care planning, introduced a then radical idea: that...
Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, Environmental Ethics
The Climate is Changing. Should Clinical Ethics Change, Too?
This editorial appears in the July 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics In June 2021, Dr. Kyle Merritt made ...
Clinical Ethics, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals
Prescribing Ozempic and an Obligation to Lose Weight
Prescriptions of GLP-1 drugs to patients without diabetes have seen an increase of 700% since 2019. GLP-1 drugs like O...
Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, Gender Disparities, Health Care
The Cass Review: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction
This editorial appears in the June 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Background The correct ap...
Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, Gender Disparities, Health Care
Courageous Providers, Principled Institutions, and Threats to Gender-Affirming Care
This editorial appears in the June 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. As of early March 2025, 6...
Clinical Ethics, Clinical Trials & Studies, Decision making
A Pioneering Industry-Academia Collaboration Celebrates 10 Years
In May 2015, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Grossman School o...
Clinical Ethics, Decision making, Health Care
The Community Becomes the Ethics Committee
In my roles at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), I often find myself bridging two worlds: the academic and the ...