Running a hospital April 21, 2010 5:21 AM by Paul Levy Each year, US News and World Report publishes its list of the top 50 hospitals in various specialties (example here). Now, an article has been published suggesting that one aspect of the methodology used by the magazine is flawed. “The Role of Reputation in… [Read more…]
April 30, 2010
WSJ.com: Health Blog April 23, 2010 8:13 AM by Katherine Hobson The combination of caring for active troops’ physical and mental ailments and retirees opting for military-sponsored coverage will drive up spending by 167% between 2001 and 2011… Increases in Health-Care Costs Even Worse in Military
April 30, 2010
Practical Ethics April 12, 2010 2:35 PM by Dominic Wilkinson Headlines in a number of newspapers in the last day or two have claimed scandalous failures in organ donation consent in the UK. According to ‘Sky News’, organs were “taken without consent”, while the Sun claims that “NHS doctors took… The real scandals in organ… [Read more…]
April 30, 2010
World news: Ethics | guardian.co.uk April 28, 2010 3:00 AM by Roy Greenslade One of the reasons that American newspapers see themselves as superior to their British counterparts is the political balance they seek to achieve and, moreover, they think they are achieving. Here, for example, is the editor-in-chief of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Julia Wallace,… [Read more…]
April 30, 2010
NYT > Health April 29, 2010 1:43 PM by By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Physicians devote as much as a third of their yearly income to interactions with health plans; no wonder so many are unhappy. Doctors Medicine and Health Health Insurance and Managed Care Reform and Reorganization Doctor and Patient: Fueling the Anger of… [Read more…]
April 29, 2010
From The New York Times: Study Shows ‘Invisible’ Burden of Family Doctors A report shows that family doctors, paid by the visit, perform many hours of uncompensated follow-up work. http://nyti.ms/9j8ewq
April 28, 2010
Carnegie Council Resources RSS Feed April 23, 2010 10:57 AM Is it time to reform the U.S. electoral structure? Should more views be represented? Do narrow interests have too much power? What do you think? Global Ethics Corner: Should American Elections be Reformed?
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Ethics Newsline® April 26, 2010 9:34 PM by Carl Hausman U.S. Public Willing to Accept Some Civil Rights Violations in Immigration Crackdown
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Guardian.co.uk April 27, 2010 6:18 AM A fatally wounded man left dying on a New York sidewalk was ignored for nearly two hours. Would you have stopped to help? New York has been shaken by the murder of a 31-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, Hugo Tale-Yax, who was stabbed to death on a Queens street last week.… [Read more…]
April 28, 2010
Bioethics Forum April 27, 2010 9:54 AM by Susan Gilbert My eggs are ripe for the taking – I am a 22-year-old female Yale graduate. On a semi-regular basis in college, I opened the school newspaper to find advertisements soliciting my demographic to donate. Some ads were more specific than others, requiring a Jewish or… [Read more…]
April 28, 2010
WSJ.com: Health Blog April 27, 2010 8:47 AM by Katherine Hobson Under reimbursement rules, IV chemo counts as a medical benefit, but oral treatments fall under the (usually less comprehensive) drug benefit. Is ‘Chemo Parity’ a Good Idea?
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