End of Life Care, Policy
Ethical Mechanisms for Increasing Compliance with Institutional End-of-Life Policies
Over 200 million people globally have legal access to some form of aid in dying. In 2008, Washington became the second o...
Subject: End of Life Care
Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, End of Life Care
By Statute or by Common Law? The Legal Determination of Death
The following editorial can be found in the January 2024 issue of American Journal of Bioethics. We were delighted to be...
End of Life Care
What Does True Equality in Assisted Dying Require?
The following editorial can be found in the September issue of The American Journal of Bioethics Shavelson et al. r...
Aging, End of Life Care
The Way We Die: Seeds of Wisdom from President Carter and My Mother
“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.” – Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President Ou...
End of Life Care, Health Care, Pediatrics
All That Matters
We call them loved ones, family, when life is thriving – intimate, caring. We know them as legal guardians, when death i...
End of Life Care, Pharmaceuticals
The Code Blue Pharmacist
A patient coded at my hospital without having clear guidelines about what he wanted for treatment plan. It left the hosp...
End of Life Care
COVID-19 Pandemic Imposes Clear End-Of-Life Decisions Criteria
by Carlo Bellieni, MD During the COVID-19 pandemic, end-of-life decision criteria for dying patients were the focus...
End of Life Care, Informed Consent, Technology
Improving the Informed Consent Process for Seniors Regarding AICDs: The Need for Bioethici...
by Arnold R. Eiser, MD MACP Our healthcare system is failing our most senior citizens by assuming they want and need to ...
Editorial-AJOB, End of Life Care
Brain Death Testing: Time for National Uniformity
This post appears in the June issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD It is time to revis...
End of Life Care, Health Care, Public Health
Is Family Presence Safe During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
by Stephen P. Wood, MS, ACNP-BC I stood facing the iPad attached to a rolling stand punching in the phone number of the ...
Decision making, End of Life Care, Ethics, Health Care, Health Regulation & Law, Justice, Public Health, Social Justice, Technology
Balancing COVID-19 Quantity and Quality of Care via Geographic Redistribution: A Matter of...
by Joyeeta G Dastidar, MD In New York City, the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country with a quarter of the ...
End of Life Care, Health Disparities, Health Regulation & Law, Politics, Public Health
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Ventilators
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed b...