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Case Study – Vaccination Mandates
A referring nephrologist believes that Sonya needs a kidney transplant for longer term survival, as well as improved quality of ...
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Case Study – Vaccine Hesitancy and Individual Freedom
Jennifer is a 44-year-old patient who is critically ill in the ICU. She is COVID positive and is now going ...
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Case Study – The Isolated Long-Term-Care Patient and Scarce Resource Allocation
Patient is an 82-year-old female, who is currently a resident at a long-term care facility. The patient is suffering from ...
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Case Study –“But I’m Asymptomatic to the Virus!” Quarantine Ethics
Jane is 40-year old physician who is travelling back from providing free medical care oversees. She has been stationed in ...
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Pandemic Ethics Resources
PubMed.gov/NIH The University of Pittsburg UW Medicine National Academy of Medicine PubMed Central Center for Practical Bioethics Webinar MediCaring.org article ...
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Medical Ethics – Ethical Issues in Healthcare of Persons with Developmental Disabilities
Ethical Issues in Healthcare of Persons with Developmental Disabilities A Threat to Disabled Persons? On the Genetics Approach to Developmental ...
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A Sociology of Aging
A Sociology of Aging Why are our senior citizens devalued? Do other societies treat their elderly better than we do? ...
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Our Health Care System Cannot Afford Its Customers
Our Health Care System Cannot Afford Its Customers Morton Creditor questions why medical care in the United States is totally ...
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Caregiver Access to Resources
Caregiver Access to Resources Helping Caregivers' Self-Identify The reluctance of spouses and family members to identify themselves as caregivers is ...