Author Archives: jwboyd
A New Way of Thinking about Informed Consent
Marina Hovhannisyan took my Bioethics Advocacy course and afterward approached me with her thoughts about the need for a new conception about informed consent given how ubiquitous AI is in medicine. The result of our conversation is now published in … Continue reading
Bioethics Advocacy Course at Harvard Medical School
I’m so excited for the new academic year! I’ve taught my Bioethics Advocacy course every year since the inception of the Master’s program in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and am planning to do so again this coming year. It’s … Continue reading
Lost in Translation: When Migrant Farm Workers Get Sick
by Fraea Renaerts and J. Wesley Boyd
And Now Back to our Regular Programming . . . Nursing Homes Are De Facto Psychiatric Wards –only they Lack Care
HMS bioethics Master’s student Amanda Buster took my “Bioethics Advocacy” this past January. After the class ended, we discussed her passion for improving care in nursing home. As a result of those discussions, Amanda and I just published our piece … Continue reading
When Protecting Privacy Means Protecting Health: Foreseeable Health Harms of AI Language Translation and Interpretation Technologies for Immigrant Patients
Hot off the presses in NEJM-AI with co-authors Bilal Irfan and Roberto Sirvent! I am both proud and honored to be part of this collaboration. https://ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/AIp2500960
Doctor Uses Marijuana in a State Where it’s Legal for Menstrual Cramps and Loses her Medical License
Data, Algorithms, and Ethics in Virtual Reality Based Medical Education
Delighted to co-author this piece with Hana Abbasian and Avani Nooka, 2 recent graduates of the Master’s in Bioethics program at Harvard Medical School. It’s an important piece that advocates pumping the ethical brakes on yet another new tech development … Continue reading
Private Practice Reopening
About J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD: Dr. J. Wesley Boyd is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and bioethicist, devoted to providing thoughtful, comprehensive care grounded in the humanities, medicine, and ethics. With academic training in philosophy, ethics, religious studies, and medicine—including degrees … Continue reading
New piece in STAT: Health Care Organizations Screening for Depression Are Skipping a Critical Question
Many health care organizations send patients a digital PHQ-9 depression questionnaire in the days leading up to an appointment. However, some organizations deliberately remove the final question of the PHQ-9, which asks about suicide. When they omit the last question, … Continue reading
Bioethics in the Margins Podcast
Covered our recent paper in the American Journal of Bioethics — Empirical. The podcast is here. Super proud of our work and that 4 of my co-authors on this important paper are former students of mine.