The Pandemic And The Atrophy of Primary Care
Steven H Miles, MD For the first part of my medical career, I worked in intensive care units, hospitals, clinics, and nu...
January 12, 2022
Multiracial Healthcare: What About Us?
By Daphne O. Martschenko, PhD and Jennifer L. Young, PhD June 12 was Loving Day – a celebration of the...
June 17, 2021
COVID-19 Proved That Americans With Disabilities Need Biden’s Infrastructure Plan. Lawm...
By Clayton Jones, LCDR, CHC, USN, Kevin Mintz, PhD, Andrew Peterson, PhD America is winning the battle against COVI...
June 16, 2021
How The Pandemic Can Help Fix Maternity Care in the United States
by Raymond De Vries, PhD and Eugene Declercq, PhD The COVID crisis is shining a light on the way we organize our li...
April 28, 2021
Umbilical Hernias: Systemic Racism, Dogma, And Pediatric Surgery
by Stephanie Preston, MD In the health professions, we have all been taught that some of the most common, chronic, and d...
April 13, 2021
Priority Access to COVID-19 Vaccine and American Healthcare
by Susan L. Smith, PhD On either side of our country’s northern border, outrage is brewing about the rich getting prio...
February 11, 2021
This Bioethicist is (Maybe) Done With The NFL And Its Super-Spreader Event
by Keisha Ray, PhD On Sunday February 7, 2021, during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, 25,000 people gathered at&nbs...
February 7, 2021
Vaccination Against COVID-19 Needs to be Mandatory
by Matthew Cote, MD, FACEP As the first two major vaccinations for COVID-19 have started to be widely distributed in the...
January 18, 2021
Are Healthcare Workers Morally Obligated to Treat Covid-19 Patients?
by Vincent LaBarca, DNP Healthcare workers are dying. As of December 31st, 2020, more than 300,000 American healthcare w...
January 6, 2021
The Disney Fast Pass of COVID-19 Vaccines: The Ethics of Paying to Jump The Line
by Daniel J. Hurst, PhD, ThM, MSc and Matthew Arbo, PhD The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—the gr...
January 4, 2021
Goodbye 2020, Hello New Opportunities for Bioethics
by Keisha Ray, PhD and Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA Keisha Although I have been an editor at bioethics.net for 2 years now, I ...
January 4, 2021
Vaccinate me, But Not First
by Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA I could be vaccinated against COVID-19 before Christmas this year. I’m ready to roll up my s...
December 14, 2020