Bill of Health
MARCH 15, 2023
By Sarah Gabriele Doctors are now using social media platforms to spread medical knowledge and to interact with the communities that they are actively building. A recent survey showed that almost 1 in 5 Americans now turn to TikTok before their doctor for health advice.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Protect Their Future created a space where doctors and parents could advocate with a unified voice. For example, the group organized a physician coalition letter where several hundred doctors called on the FDA to urgently cut the bureaucratic tape and make vaccines accessible to young children.
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Bill of Health
JUNE 13, 2022
As medical care advanced — and categories like “ brain death ” emerged — doctors found themselves facing challenging new dilemmas and old ones more often. The AAMC requires medical school graduates to “demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent.”
Bill of Health
AUGUST 31, 2022
After conducting a biopsy on her tumor, her doctors learned that her cancer cells reproduced uniquely effectively. Without her knowledge or consent, her doctors derived from the cells the HeLa cell line — the world’s first immortal human cell line, worth billions and a driver of the biotechnology revolution.
Bill of Health
JANUARY 30, 2024
The theme of perpetuating mistrust is also relevant when considering the complex issue of informed consent in psychedelic research. One of the founding principles of research ethics, informed consent requires participants in clinical trials have a full understanding of what it is they are agreeing to.
Bill of Health
JANUARY 29, 2024
As each contribution emphasizes, these oversights have ethical implications for research design, informed consent processes, and public communication. I hope that this symposium contributes to furthering conversations and generating new questions in the context of a broader “critical turn” within psychedelic studies.
Foster Swift
APRIL 16, 2024
In recent years, Michigan has been home to two of the largest sexual abuse scandals involving doctors in history: the sexual abuse committed by Larry Nassar while employed by Michigan State University and the sexual abuse committed by Robert Anderson while employed by the University of Michigan.
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