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Bioethics for Breakfast: Health Reform Unmentionables: Long-Term Care
Anne Montgomery and Sarah Slocum, co-directors of Altarum’s Program to Improve Eldercare, presented at the December 10 Bioethics for Breakfast session, offering perspectives and insight on the topic “Health Reform Unmentionables: Long-Term Care.” While past Bioethics for Breakfast events were held in … Continue reading
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Tagged Altarum, Anne Montgomery, bioethics, bioethics for breakfast, health care reform, health insurance, health policy, long term care, Medicaid, medicare, Sarah Slocum, united states
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Listen: Why I Left the U.S. for My Surgical Procedure
This podcast episode features Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences faculty members Dr. Len Fleck, Acting Director, and Dr. Larissa Fluegel, Assistant Professor. Continue reading
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Tagged bioethics, Dominican Republic, health care cost, health care policy, health insurance, health policy, insurance, Larissa Fluegel, Leonard Fleck, medical ethics, medical tourism, No Easy Answers in Bioethics, podcast, surgery
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Bioethics for Breakfast: Can Pharmaceutical Cost Control Be Achieved Ethically with Surgical Precision?
Paula Cunningham and Craig Hunter presented at the February 6th Bioethics for Breakfast event, offering perspectives and insight on the topic “Health Reform: Can Pharmaceutical Cost Control Be Achieved Ethically with Surgical Precision?” This year’s Bioethics for Breakfast series is … Continue reading
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Tagged bioethics, bioethics for breakfast, Craig Hunter, event, health care, health care cost, health policy, health reform, medical ethics, Michigan, Paula Cunningham, pharmaceutical industry
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Bioethics for Breakfast: Our Sick Health Care System: What’s the Differential Diagnosis?
Laura Appel and Marti Lolli presented at the December 5th Bioethics for Breakfast event, offering perspectives and insight on the topic “Our Sick Health Care System: What’s the Differential Diagnosis?” Continue reading
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Tagged bioethics, bioethics for breakfast, event, health care, health policy, Laura Appel, Marti Lolli, medical ethics, Michigan
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Listen: Ethics and Policy Issues of Targeted Cancer Therapies
No Easy Answers in Bioethics Episode 16 What kinds of challenges currently exist within precision medicine? This episode focuses specifically on targeted cancer therapies, featuring a discussion between Center Professor and Acting Director Dr. Len Fleck and College of Osteopathic Medicine student … Continue reading
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Tagged bioethics, cancer, cancer treatment, health care cost, health policy, Leonard Fleck, medical ethics, medicare, No Easy Answers in Bioethics, podcast, precision medicine, Stephanie Mackenzie
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Health Care and Social Justice: Just Take Two Aspirin for Your Tumor If You Cannot Afford Your Cancer Care
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb is the former Associate Dean of Curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. In a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece, “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me by My Pronouns,” he complained that curricula in medical schools “are increasingly focused on social justice rather than treating illness.” He goes on to say, “A new wave of educational specialists is increasingly influencing medical education. They emphasize ‘social justice’ that is related to health care only tangentially.” Really? Only tangentially? Continue reading
Bioethics for Breakfast: Medicare for All: What Should That Mean?
Stacey Hettiger and Rick Murdock presented at the September 26th Bioethics for Breakfast event, offering perspectives and insight on the topic “Medicare for All: What Should That Mean?” “Medicare for All” has become a contentious political slogan. Advocates for various versions … Continue reading
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Dr. Fleck presents on elder ethics at International Bioethics Retreat in Paris
Center Acting Director and Professor Dr. Leonard Fleck recently presented at the 2019 International Bioethics Retreat, held in Paris, France on June 26-28. Dr. Fleck chaired a session titled “In the Clinic” which featured topics on clinical ethics and medical … Continue reading
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Tagged clinical ethics, elderly, health care, health care justice, health policy, International Bioethics Retreat, Leonard Fleck
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Bioethics for Breakfast: Fitness, Frailty, and the Challenges of Successful Aging
Francis Komara, DO, and Scott Wamsley presented at the April 25th Bioethics for Breakfast event, offering perspectives and insight on the topic “Fitness, Frailty, and the Challenges of Successful Aging.” In very concrete terms, what should “healthy aging” mean when we … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, bioethics, bioethics for breakfast, elderly, geriatrics, health care, health policy, medical ethics, Michigan, public health
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