September 22, 2021
(Kaiser Health News) – The ICU here has space for 28 patients but last Friday was operating at 160% capacity, Baxter said. To handle the overflow, nurses elsewhere provide care beyond their training as covid patients fill other parts of … Read More
September 22, 2021
Genetics in Medicine (vol. 23, no. 3, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Exome Sequencing Analysis on Products of Conception: A Cohort Study to Evaluate Clinical Utility and Genetic Etiology for Pregnancy Loss” by Chen Zhao, et … Read More
September 21, 2021
Developing World Bioethics (vol. 21, no. 1, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “What Does an African Ethic of Social Cohesion Entail for Social Distancing?” by Thaddeus Metz “Together We Lived, and alone You Died: Loneliness and … Read More
September 20, 2021
(The Conversation) – The fourth wave of COVID-19 is exacerbating the ongoing crisis for the nursing workforce and has led to burnout for many nurses. As a result, many are quitting their jobs in substantial numbers all across the country, … Read More
September 20, 2021
The New Bioethics (vol. 35, no. 3, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Contractualist Age Rationing Under Outbreak Circumstances” by Lasse Nielsen “There are no In?Principle Ethical Objections to Controlled Voluntary SARS?CoV?2 Infection” by Dustin Crummett “Rethinking … Read More
September 20, 2021
Nursing Ethics (vol. 28, no. 2, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Unmet Care Needs of Older People: A Scoping Review” by Dominika Kalánková, et al. “Human Rights Education in Patient Care: A Literature Review and Critical … Read More
September 17, 2021
(ABC News) – The World Health Organization’s director general on Friday expressed deep concern about the impact of Lebanon’s economic meltdown and multiple crises on the wellbeing of the nation, and said the brain drain among the country’s health workers … Read More
September 17, 2021
(Medscape) – Amid yet another surge in COVID-19 cases around the United States, clinicians are speaking out about their growing frustration with this preventable crisis. Some are using the terms “empathy fatigue” and “compassion fatigue” — a sense that they … Read More
September 17, 2021
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 47, no. 3, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “COVID-19 Ventilator Rationing Protocols: Why We Need to Know More about the Views of Those with Most to Lose” by Whitney Kerr and Harald Schmidt … Read More
September 17, 2021
Medico-Legal Journal (vol. 89, no. 1, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Legislative Preparedness for the Control of Pandemics – Using Taiwan as an Example” by Yi-Chen Su “Covid-19 and the Healthcare Professionals of the Future” by … Read More
