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Communicating Health Barriers and Solutions to Decision Paralysis and Confirmation Bias
Decision paralysis and confirmation bias can present major barriers to effective communication in healthcare. Odessa Sawyer, MSW, Program Coordinator at the Center, describes how these barriers work and how partnerships with community organizations can alleviate many of these barriers. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Policy Volatility, Abortion Access, and the Erosion of Trust in Healthcare
A federal appeals court recently restricted access to the most commonly used medication abortion drug – Mifepristone — via mail before the Supreme Court temporarily restored broader access while it considers the case, leaving the ultimate outcome uncertain and leaving the public unsure and anxious. We explores the many ways instability in access to the drug creates avoidable harms and, ultimately, erodes public trust in healthcare. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Beyond the Gala: A New Model for Community-Driven Fundraising in Bioethics
The Center is redefining fundraising through community-driven events, expanding reach, and making bioethics more accessible to all. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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![A graphic stating the Ethics Dispatch is like an ethics committee meeting in a box. With four topic sections: monthly hot topic, new clinical ethics case study, current bioethics news stories and ethical musing essay.]()
Medicaid Work Requirements Are Ethically Incoherent
Justice strengthens leadership, and conversely, when leadership lacks justice, moral distress proliferates. Leaders who model fairness signal that ethical concerns are legitimate operational considerations. They’re a practical necessity – not distractions from efficiency. In Ethical Musings, we compare the ad hominem ethical fallacy to other ethical systems’ approach to judging moral character and leadership. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Blurred Lines at the Bedside: A Call for Ethical Presence
Ethical presence honors humanity and fosters humility. A clinical ethicist explores the ethical issues nurses confront in patient care and the need for organizational leaders to pay greater attention to the role ethics plays in addressing these challenges. She concludes with a call to foster an ethical culture by investing in ethics services. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Mike Rode Continues Stowers Legacy at the Center for Practical Bioethics
Mike Rode Continues Stowers Legacy at the Center for Practical Bioethics. Mike Rode is a board member for the Center and Vice President and Senior Investment Director at American Century since 2018.
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![A graphic stating the Ethics Dispatch is like an ethics committee meeting in a box. With four topic sections: monthly hot topic, new clinical ethics case study, current bioethics news stories and ethical musing essay.]()
Ethical Leadership in Healthcare: One Key Element
Justice strengthens leadership, and conversely, when leadership lacks justice, moral distress proliferates. Leaders who model fairness signal that ethical concerns are legitimate operational considerations. They’re a practical necessity – not distractions from efficiency. In Ethical Musings, we compare the ad hominem ethical fallacy to other ethical systems’ approach to judging moral character and leadership. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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The Bystander Effect: Epstein, AI, Minneapolis, and the Holocaust
The author draws connections between what she’s learned about bystanders then and what she sees unfolding now in the Epstein scandal, artificial intelligence, and Minneapolis. She wonders what, if anything, we have learned about taking a stand and what difference that can still make. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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The Necessity of Narrative Medicine in Treating Disabled Patients
The necessity of narrative medicine in treating disabled patients is discussed in this blog. The authors propose using narrative as one way to increase health literacy and reduce bias and ableism and offer a framework to approach clinical encounters with disabled patients. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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When Empathy Is Turned into Fear
Empathy is redirected into self-protection. When immigration enforcement is highly visible, inconsistently applied, and no longer constrained by once-respected boundaries, people begin to ask not only what is happening to them? but could this happen to us? Distance begins to feel safer than beneficence. All this while the steps needed to protect immigrant patients are well known, ethically justified and within bounds of the law. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
