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Medbots, Autodocs & Telemedicine
#481844255 / gettyimages.com In science fiction stories, movies and games automated medical services are quite common. Some take the form of autodocs—essentially an autonomous robotic pod that treats...
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The Corruption of Academic Science
Synthetic insulin crystals synthesized using recombinant DNA technology (Photo credit: Wikipedia) STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields are supposed to be the new darlings of...
View ArticleThe State & Health Care
Embed from Getty Images One way to argue that the state is obligated to provide health care (in some manner) to its citizens is to draw an analogy to the obligation of the state to defend its citizens...
View ArticleMedicine & Markets
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View ArticleOpioids, Heart Surgery & Ethics
While pharmaceutical companies and their stockholders have profited greatly from flooding America with opioids, this has come at a terrible cost to others. Showing that the idea of gateway drugs can...
View ArticleGoFundMe(dical Expenses)
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View ArticleThe High Price of Being Shot
Embed from Getty Images In the naivety of my youth, I believed that people would not be charged for medical treatment resulting from being wounded by criminals. After all, my younger self reasoned,...
View ArticlePatient Time
A standard to response to criticism of the American health care “system” is that it is the best in the world. In a sense, this is true–if you have the money, you can buy the best health care (mostly)....
View ArticleHealth Workers & Moral Objections I: Procedures
Embed from Getty Images The Trump administration plans to modify the Health and Human Services (HHS) civil rights office to protect health care workers who have moral or religious objections to...
View ArticleHealth Care Workers and Moral Objections II: Patients/Clients
As noted in an earlier essay, the Trump administration plans to modify the Health and Human Services (HHS) civil rights office to protect health care workers who have moral or religious objections to...
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