Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Programs to Help Doctors Are Rife With Problems
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/almost-addicted/202108/programs-help-doctors-are-rife-problems
Story about Physician Health Programs
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/doctors-fear-controversial-program-made-to-help-them/63-ac167fca-a312-4464-a315-de5ba712698f?ref=exit-recirc
Questions for COVID deniers
Do you wear seatbelts? If so, why? Do you want your surgeon to wear a mask when you get your hip replaced? If so , why or why not? Do germs exist? If germs actually exist, who would know the … Continue reading
The Emotional Life of Donor Conceived People
Here is a nice Q and A discussing some of the findings of our study of donor conceived individuals in Severance: On the Aftermath of Separation. For a sample, I’ve copied one of the questions below, along with my answer: … Continue reading
The Potential Dangers of Testing Your Own DNA
I was lucky to meet Dani Shapiro through HMS Bioethics when she came to speak in a class I taught there about her book Inheritance. That meeting ultimately resulted in Josh North, Rennie Burke, Yvette Ollada, Gali Katznelson and I … Continue reading
Doctors in India Need Human Rights Training to Advocate for Prison Reform
Delighted that the work that co-authors Shivam Singh and Farhad Udwadia and I did examining how much medical students in India are taught about human rights and conditions inside their own prisons. Our paper can be found here in the … Continue reading
Looking for Input: How do Trump Supporters Talk About and/Mourn Loved Ones Who Die of COVID?
It strikes me as impossibly difficult for individuals who lose loved ones to COVID. but whose politics make it hard (or impossible) for them to acknowledge the seriousness of COVID, to properly mourn their dead loved ones. Please send thoughts/anecdotes … Continue reading
Torture in the name of health: ICE is using solitary confinement to curb the spread of COVID
Many people don’t know that individuals in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody are regularly placed in solitary confinement (often termed “administrative or disciplinary segregation”) for extended periods of time, a horrific practice that Ellen Gallagher Esq. has bravely … Continue reading
How to Survive a Quarantine Winter
Here is another blog on Psychology Today authored by Jessica Tepper and myself.
COVID in jails and prisons
We moved to Houston 3 months ago and just unpacked our last box last Saturday. This is my first letter in the Houston Chronicle. COVID or no, prison reform/decarceration for many who are currently being held is long overdue. The … Continue reading