April 7, 2020
(The New Yorker) – As the pandemic ramps up, I’m working twelve-hour shifts, six days a week. I’ve picked up extra shifts to cover for doctors who are already sick. During a typical shift, you might intubate one patient who … Read More
April 7, 2020
(Newsweek) – The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly and radically disrupted any sense of normality in all aspects of medical practice in the United States. Rationing life-saving care is not something American doctors are accustomed to consciously consider in our daily … Read More
March 30, 2020
(The New York Times) – Our collective silence about death, suffering and mortality places a tremendous burden on the people we love, and on the doctors and nurses navigating these conversations. We should not be discussing our loved one’s wishes … Read More
March 26, 2020
(New York Times) – But now, as we tighten our protocols to protect our patients from the threat of Covid-19, she’s alone. Here in my hospital, as in so many others throughout the country, we’ve banished most visitors. It’s a … Read More
March 25, 2020
(The Conversation) – Last week American biotech company Moderna commenced the first clinical trial of a vaccine for COVID-19. Similar studies are reportedly being planned in the US, China, Israel, Australia and elsewhere, with at least 20 potential vaccines under … Read More
March 23, 2020
(New York Post) – For a professional ethicist like me, this is sobering but hardly surprising. We are finite creatures in a world of finite resources. The idea that we are always and everywhere masters of our own fate — … Read More
March 18, 2020
(The New York Times) – As an emergency room doctor at the front lines of the pandemic, however, I wasn’t surprised. I’ve been working back-to-back shifts at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where the state’s first patient hospitalized with Covid-19 is being treated, … Read More
March 16, 2020
(Sydney Morning Herald) – As Australia’s coronavirus outbreak worsens, health authorities are bracing for an unprecedented increase in hospital admissions and demand for acute care. Authorities in NSW are anticipating as many as 1.5 million people in the state to … Read More
March 13, 2020
(Medscape) – Patients vote with their feet: If they come to the appointment, then for the most part I can assume that they are at least interested in hearing about the benefits and risks (physical, psychosocial, and financial) of further … Read More
March 11, 2020
(STAT News) – In the midst of a summer lull in H1N1 cases, the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) convened a committee to come up with guidance for clinicians and hospital administrators who might need to … Read More
