Author Archives: jwboyd
James “Laid”
Perfect rendition of so many relationships. Catchy tune too, to put it mildly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_qZ5B-yioU&list=RD6c1BThu95d8&index=3
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, religious studies, and medicine—including degrees from … 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.
Our Paper was Covered in the National Review
It’s critical of our findings–but not our methodology–and I’m fully supportive of vigorous debate. What an honor! https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bioethics-is-becoming-just-another-social-justice-political-movement
Survey of North American Bioethicists’ Attitudes toward Social justice published in AJOB Empirical
Social Justice for Bioethicists This is a big piece that will have legs. Kudos to my 4 former students who are co-authors!