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Should TikTok Doctors Owe Any Duty of Care Toward Their Followers?

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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.

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Reflections on Procedural Barriers to Pediatric COVID Vaccine Access

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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. Solutions for the Future.

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Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

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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.”

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We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula

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More schools could consider using simulations of common ethical scenarios, where they might ask students to perform capacity assessments or seek informed consent for procedures. There are also questions about how to assess whether students will make more ethical decisions in practice.

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Symposium Introduction: Addressing Technoableism: Reforming Infrastructure and Disability Representation

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Representation, in so many modes, plays a huge role in how we get sorted and understood — how we are read by therapists, by doctors, by researchers, by gamers, and by the world more generally. These representations shape our lives.

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The Council of Europe’s Artificial Intelligence Convention: Implications for Health and Patients

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The enormous ‘data hunger’ of medical AI may also affect medical privacy, and the opaque nature of many AI applications may put existing health practices and other patients’ rights under pressure, such as the provision of information, informed consent, and legal redress.

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Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?

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However, having a right to health may be insufficient, on its own, to enforce adequate regulations and ethical principles to develop a health system which respects patient autonomy and their individual values and preferences.

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