Category Archives: Miscellaneous

The emotional struggles veterinary technicians face are often hidden https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/almost-addicted/202501/the-mental-health-struggles-of-veterinary-technicians

Check out my AI search query and AI’s response below. Some of the points ChatGPT makes are damning of PHPs, to put it mildly. AI Query: Why do physician health programs send doctors to residential treatment program when those physicians … Continue reading →

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Despite polygraphs being inadmissible in courts and being considered either full on junk science or just north of that mark, the federation of state physician health programs (FSPHP) and its member state physician health programs (PHPs) are routinely sending physicians … Continue reading →

Excellent article on Physician Health Programs here by Frieda Klotz. One problem of PHPs is that they operate with little oversight and almost no ways of meaningfully appealing they’re recommendations. Additionally, they have bidirectional conflicts of interest with the evaluation/treatment … Continue reading →

https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/06/ai-ethics-in-medical-education-podcast.html

I just published a review of Carl Elliott’s latest book here in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. Here are my concluding chapters from the review: Elliott notes that many whistleblowers start out as idealists. Indeed, that idealism is at … Continue reading →

Requiring FDA approval for laboratory developed tests would be an overreaction to the Theranos debacle and would ultimately harm patients See my opinion piece about proposed new oversight and regulation of lab developed tests by the FDA here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-fda-overreaction-to-theranoss-implosion-would-harm-patients