Does Our Organ Transplant System Exploit Undocumented Immigrants?
“Be careful when you travel, or you might wake up in a bathtub missing a kidney!” Many of us have heard some variation o...
May 18, 2023
Clarifying the DDR and DCD
by James L. Bernat, MD This editorial can be found in the Feburary 2023 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics. Over...
January 25, 2023
Legal and Ethical Considerations for Requiring Consent for Apnea Testing in Brain Death Determination
Abstract The past decade has witnessed escalating legal and ethical challenges to the diagnosis of death by neurologic c...
Publish date:1st January 1970
Why It is Important to Consider Social Support When Assessing Organ Transplant Candidates?
You can read this editorial and other articles in this month’s issue of The American Journal of Bioethics. by José...
October 29, 2019
Should Lack of Social Support Prevent Access to Organ Transplantation?
Abstract Transplantation programs commonly rely on clinicians’ judgments about patients’ social support (care from frien...
Publish date:1st January 1970
Why It is Important to Consider Social Support When Assessing Organ Transplant Candidates?
Abstract The number of transplant surgeries has risen steadily in the last 30 years in the United States (US), while the...
Publish date:1st January 1970
When Patients Are Maintained to Improve Hospital Stats: A Case Study
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. A ProPublica investigation discovered a pattern in some transplant patients at Newark Beth Israe...
October 8, 2019
Executive Order Changes Approaches to Treating Kidney Disease
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Few people would say that the system of payment and organ distribution is perfect. About 37 mill...
July 10, 2019
BioethicsTV (May 6-10) #TheResident; #ChicagoMed
Exploring ethical issues in medical dramas The Resident (Season 2; Episode 23): Unrepresented patient and substance abus...
May 14, 2019
BioethicsTV (April 21-May 2, 2019): #NewAmsterdam, #TheResident, #GreysAnatomy
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Exploring bioethical issues in television medical dramas New Amsterdam (Season 1; Episode 19): P...
May 3, 2019
Is it Time for the DNE: Do Not ECMO
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In the last few years, the hospital where I serve on the ethics committee has seen a dramatic up...
May 1, 2019
When Pigs Fly
by Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. Researchers at Yale University recently reported an experiment in which they used an experimenta...
April 22, 2019