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- Languishing: The Dominant Emotion of 2021
- Dementia, Assisted Suicide and Advance Directives: When the Hypothetical Becomes Real
- The Unethical Drugging of Dementia Patients
- Alzheimer’s & Cost of Hope: $56k
- Robot Pets and the Elderly
- Covid Vaccination Refusal by Nursing Home Patients
- A Triage Plan for a Covid-19 Vaccine
- A Bioethics Encounter on the Twitter Battlefield
- Finding the Me I Used to Be After Covid Lockdown
- On Being an Elder in a Pandemic-Personal Essay by a Fellow of The Hastings Center
- Public Health and Economy Converge on Covid-19 Pandemic
- Two Patients are Suffering with Covid-19: The Individual and the Country/ We Have a Responsibility to Each
- Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19 (NEJM)
- Who Should Be Saved? The Hard Decisions in a Pandemic
- Allocation of Extremely Scarce Resources in COVID-19 Pandemic
- Coronavirus: should frontline doctors and nurses get preferential treatment?
- Infants and Children: The Silent Victims of the Opioid Epidemic
- The Juxtaposition of the Heart Transplant and a DNR
- The Rush to Diagnose and Treat at the End of Life
- Hallmark Movies Miss the Sadness Experienced by Young and Old
- Gender Transition in Very Young Children
- Did You Mention Your Defibrillator and Pacemaker in Advance Directives
- What is the Definition of Justice in the Opioid Crisis
- The Impact of Music in Dementia
- Will Physician Assisted Suicide Lead to Rational Suicide
- Death Doulas Add to Dying Well Initiatives
- Hospice In The Nursing Home; Knowing the Right Question to Ask
- A Personal Essay
- All Hospice Care is Not Created Equal: Do Your Homework
- Where Education and Dementia Intersect
- Artificial Intelligence And The Caregiver Gap
- Feeling Lonely Or Alone? Bored Or Empty?
- The ‘Right To Try’ At The End of Life
- On Health Care Decisions Day, a Decision that Could Delay the End of Your Life
- The Disparity Between Cash And Care In The For-Profit Nursing Home Industry
- Opioid Addicted Parents And Grandparents: Say It Ain’t So
- Palliative Care And The Life That’s Left
- Commentary: ‘Right to die’ runs the risk of becoming a duty to society
- Can the Right To Die Become The Duty To Die?
- When Life With Dementia And Advance Directives Clash
- Aid in dying bill sends a dangerous message to children
- Physician Assisted Suicide And Teen Suicide: One Policy’s Dangerous Message To Vulnerable Youth
- Commentary: Gift of personal contact
- The Searing Ache Of Loneliness
- A Physician’s End Of Life
- Limiting treatments unethical
- CPR Versus DNR For The Elderly Patient
- Big Pharma production still high
- Physicians And The Power Of Prescribing
- Who Decided “Affordability” Of The ACA?
- Compassion And Choices: A Troubling Case Study
- Concierge Medicine Is Personal Medicine For Both Doctors And Patients
- The Gift That Keeps On Giving For Caregivers Who Give So Much
- The Whole of One’s Life Matters
- Life is the right choice
- End Of Life Decisions At The Beginning Of Life
- Will Young Lives With Mental Illness Become Part Of Physician-Assisted Suicide Discussion?
- The Importance Of Our Stories In A World Of Scarce Financial Resources
- One Nation… Without Healthcare Justice for All
- I’ve Waited So Long, I Could Die
- We Are All Some Mother’s Child: Why Are We Allowing Physicians To Help Us Kill Ourselves
- Words Matter: Physician Assisted Suicide Is NOT Physician Aid In Dying
- Is Autonomy All We Really Want?
- Can Safety, Freedom And Rationing Co-Exist For The Elderly?
- Does A Just Society Use the “R” Word?
- Striking The Balance Between Population Guidelines And Patient Primacy
- Where Social Justice Fits In Medical Decision-Making