April 3, 2020
(ProPublica) – There’s an overlooked reason why hospitals treating COVID-19 patients are so short of protective gear. In January, just before the pandemic hit the United States, a key distributor recalled more than 9 million gowns produced by a Chinese … Read More
April 3, 2020
Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (vol. 9, no. 3, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Cutting for Equity—Reconstructing the Culture of Surgery that is Still Toxic for Women Surgeons” by Patricia L. Dawson “Double-Edged Scalpels: The Trials and … Read More
April 2, 2020
(Reuters) – U.S. medical professionals on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic are lobbying policymakers for protection from potential malpractice lawsuits as hospitals triage care and physicians take on roles outside their specialties. State chapters of the powerful American … Read More
April 1, 2020
(Reuters) – He doesn’t wear a mask but he is helping save lives from coronavirus just the same. Meet Tommy, the robot nurse.Tommy is one of six new robots helping flesh-and-blood doctors and nurses care for coronavirus patients at 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
March 31, 2020
(The Atlantic) – They flew in on short notice. They left their homes all across America; rushed to Lackland Air Force Base, in Texas, and other military installations; and got to work. They are not elite commandos or rapid-response troops, … Read More
March 31, 2020
Nursing Ethics (vol. 26, no. 7-8, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include “Intelligent Machines, Care Work and the Nature of Practical Reasoning” by Angus Robson “Theoretical Foundations of Narrative Care: Turning Towards Relational Ethics” by Bodil H … Read More
March 30, 2020
(AMA) – The COVID-19 pandemic has demanded of U.S. physicians, medical educators and policymakers to ask many difficult ethical questions. Among them: What is the physician’s duty to show up for work during a deadly outbreak? When is it appropriate … Read More
March 27, 2020
(Reuters) – Nurses in Kenya’s capital and at least two towns have launched protests or refused to treat suspected coronavirus patients because the government has not given them enough protective gear or training, a medical union chief said. Only a … Read More
March 27, 2020
(The New York Times) – While the disease itself does not necessarily place patients at high risk for contracting the virus, they and their caregivers face a range of special challenges. Dementia patients are typically very sensitive to changes in … Read More
