November 5, 2020
(NPR) – First-year medical student Sean Sweat “didn’t want to tiptoe around” issues of race when she sat down with 11 of her classmates to write a new version of the medical profession’s venerable Hippocratic oath. “We start our medical … Read More
September 23, 2020
(Kaiser Health News) – Reopening colleges drove a coronavirus surge of about 3,000 new cases a day in the United States, according to a draft study released Tuesday. The study, done jointly by researchers at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, … Read More
August 31, 2020
(Kaiser Health News) – COVID-19 is disrupting just about every student’s 2020 education, but medical students have it particularly hard right now. “It’s a nightmare scenario for the class of 2021,” said Jake Berg, a fourth-year student at the Kentucky … Read More
August 4, 2020
(STAT News) – But because Virji, now a second-year student at Harvard Medical School, had always aspired to become a physician and knew the quality of the schools here in the U.S., he kept on. Now he and several other … Read More
July 14, 2020
(AMA) Humor can help release nervous tension, express feelings of superiority and reveal struggles to assimilate something unexpected. Studying when and why things are funny is part of value theory called aesthetics. Similar to ethics, aesthetics helps individuals interrogate what … Read More
April 7, 2020
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 45, no. 12, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Evidence First, Practice Second in Arthroscopic Surgery: Use of Placebo Surgery in Randomised Controlled Trial” by Kazuha Kizaki, Lisa J Schwartz, and Olufemi … Read More
April 7, 2020
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 381, no. 24, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Machine Learning and the Cancer-Diagnosis Problem — No Gold Standard” by A.S. Adamson and H.G. Welch “Kicking the Can Down the … Read More
April 1, 2020
Nursing Ethics (vol. 27, no. 1, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Normative Nursing Ethics: A Literature Review and Tentative Recommendations” by Eric Vogelstein and Alison Colbert “The New Futility? The Rhetoric and Role of “Suffering” In … Read More
April 1, 2020
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 381, no. 21, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Who Pays in Medicare Part D? Giving Plans More Skin in the Game” by E.E. Trish et al. “Case Studies in … Read More
March 31, 2020
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 381, no. 20, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Learning from the Dead” by K.M. De Cock, E. Zielinski-Gutiérrez, and S.B. Lucas “Modernizing the FDA’s 510(k) Pathway” by V.K. Rathi … Read More
