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Can’t Make This Up! Some Physicians Are Being Forced to Pass Polygraph Tests if They Want to Continue Working

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

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The Delicate Path of Treating Addiction Among Doctors

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

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KevinMD Podcast on the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education

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

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Book Review of Carl Elliott’s new book: The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No

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

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FDA Over-Regulation of Lab Tests Could Harm Patients

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

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Honored to Take Part in the Podcast Earlier Today about Physician Health Programs with Pamela Wible and Kernan Manion that was hosted by Joseph Brigandi

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ICE Detention Facilities are Routinely Utilizing Solitary Confinement: Today is a Major Day for Human Rights

Federal whistleblower Ellen Gallagher has been decrying the use of solitary confinement on individuals in immigration detention for a decade, but little has changed to date despite her beyond courageous efforts. Today, a report, found here, co-authored by Katherine Peeler … Continue reading

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The Mirror article: Mystery over nitrogen execution death with fears it’ll be ‘incredibly painful’

From the article, which you can find here: “Professor J Wesley Boyd works as part of the faculty at the Center for Bioethics and is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He spoke to The Mirror about … Continue reading

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Baylor College of Medicine student Amelia Mercado and I appeared on this STAT First Opinion podcast with Torie Bosch

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