Should We Compensate Organ Donors?
Recently, I came across an article by Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, from the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU School of Medicine who…
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Our Teacher
On Thursday, we met our donors. It seemed like any class, with the lecture and preamble beforehand. Yet, there was tension in the air….
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Choosing the Perfect Pre-Med Major
As an incoming medical student, there are many acronyms and abbreviations that you are suddenly expected to know on top of the already impossible…
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Colonoscopies, Colons and Rectums, Oh My
An overweight, 55-year old man was rolled into the operating room and plopped onto the table with his robe sprawled open while the nurse…
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The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Retreat Poem
Eighty disparate paths enjoin on this day In a field of red rock and ancient tree Walking, running, thinking, learning each other’s way…
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End of Life Act
Last year on June 9th, California Governor Jerry Brown gave terminally ill patients in California with less than six months to live the ability…
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Didactic Blocks Expressed as Poetry: Orientation/ITM
Fresh Faces Hi, nice to meet you. Let me introduce myself. We will be classmates. Explanation: Though simple, the haiku was originally…
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My First Diagnosis
Friday, September 30, 2016 A small village about 50 miles outside of Santa Domingo It was our last day on the trip. We had…
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A Letter to the Class of 2021
I was walking out of a grocery store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in November of 2013 when I received the phone…
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Medical Ethics: May Response and July Question
May Ethical Question In May, we discussed the possibility of acquiring a terminal disease and the end of a physician’s life. Let’s revisit: You…
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