Nurse admits she overmedicated hospice patients to death – but no murder charges filed
- When hospice compensation decreases with each day that a patient stays in hospice, are we perhaps forgetting what hospice is really meant to do for patients?
How to Provide Better Incentives to Organ Donors: Three experts discuss strategies to address the shortage of organs available for people who need transplants
- With a general distaste and opposition to monetary compensation for live organ donation (despite prospective studies showing its potential overall benefit), a search for creative solutions to save lives.
- My favorite incentive is for governmental provided lifetime health insurance matching that of the US representative in the donor’s district. More on the benefits of that approach another time.
Texas can’t let misguided vaccination fears endanger all our kids
- When celebrities are the most vocal advocates for or against a particular medical program, that alone should make us nervous. Now it’s endangering our kids.
BIOLIFE4D Successfully Demonstrates Ability to 3D Bioprint Human Cardiac Tissue
- This is a big deal and has the potential to be a real game changer in cardiac care and eventually, hopefully, in cardiac transplant as well. As Glenn Reynolds is wont to say, “faster, please.”
NIFLA v. Becerra’s Boost to Medical Conscience
- Ramifications of the recent SCOTUS decision for conscientious refusal in medicine.
When the government polices the content of professional speech, it can fail to “‘preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail.’” Professionals might have a host of good faith disagreements, both with each other and with the government, on many topics in their respective fields.
Doctors and nurses might disagree about the ethics of assisted suicide or the benefits of medical marijuana; lawyers and marriage counselors might disagree about the prudence of prenuptial agreements or the wisdom of divorce; bankers and accountants might disagree about the amount of money that should be devoted to savings or the benefits of tax reform.
“[T]he best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market,” and the people lose when the government is the one deciding which ideas should prevail.