Ethics Everywhere

Watch, Listen, Read & Go. Where ethics meets the humanities. Curated by the @PennMedicine HUP Ethics Team. Tweets and retweets are not endorsements.

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Opinion: My Patient Was Making a Fatal Decision. What Could I Do? @nytimes
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Sports betting is more addictive than ever, and millions of young Americans are paying the price. https://t.co/95uM0TcbwT

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🧠How do the stories we tell about #dementia shape care, stigma, and understanding?

JAMA Medical News podcast, HC Scholar Nancy Berlinger discusses our new special report, “Living with Dementia: Learning from Cultural Narratives in Aging Societies.”

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Online, Brooke Eby has shown hundreds of thousands of followers what navigating her 30s with the neurodegenerative disease looks like. This is what a week looks like behind the screen. https://t.co/W70LmBXzxK

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Language Barriers and Access to Hospital Patient Portals in the US - As digital health care continues to evolve, prioritizing language accessibility in its design is essential to ensure inclusivity for all patients. @JAMANetworkOpen https://t.co/QV387cubZs

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🧠 Millions face dementia worldwide, but myths persist. Would enhanced services and programs ease fear and improve care?

🔗 New HC Bioethics Forum essay explores how better cultural narratives can improve lives: https://t.co/QZNs8A1vM1

#DementiaAwareness #AgingSociety

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🚫💊 “Don’t take Tylenol,” President Trump told pregnant women last week.

Despite his claims, there is no evidence that Tylenol taken during pregnancy increases the risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability.

NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay, https://t.co/6FJ42rrQCI

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💉 For more than 50yrs, the U.S. followed a unified, science-based system for vaccine guidance. But now, we’re entering a new era of vaccine federalism—where state policies clash with a national scientific process.

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Meet the hairstylist helping patients look and feel their best at Penn Medicine: "This is my passion."
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Thanks to chatbots, “patients aren’t just arriving with facts. They’re arriving with shaped, rehearsed stories,” writes clinical psychologist Harvey Lieberman. https://t.co/KUVX10mmq8

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Dismissal of post-tubal ligation syndrome sends women on maddening pilgrimages in search of recognition and relief. The best remedy, many say, is reversal. https://t.co/0KcfRQQz3v

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A top Democratic senator is launching an investigation into privately owned methadone clinics’ business practices and treatment of patients. https://t.co/GoWuxMJmqI

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Check out the next seminar "Public Health in Crisis" in the Seminar Series on Research Strategies to Increase Vaccine Uptake. This hybrid event features Peter Marks, MD, PhD and takes place on Oct 9 from 12-1pm. https://t.co/hVFH1l6dIR

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After 2 years of controversy, Mütter Museum announces new human remains policy https://t.co/WVPrbkTXqM

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👤 A man in his 60s with advanced cancer and schizophrenia, said he wanted treatment — but refused care. With no surrogate/questions about his decision-making capacity, the ethics team was called in...

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🤖🍼 Artificial wombs are no longer science fiction! But as we move closer to partial ectogenesis new ethical questions arise. Should a fetus in an AW be considered a patient?👶

HC President @VarditRavitsky & co-authors of this new article argue yes!

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30+ states have laws criminalizing the transmission of HIV. LDI’s new Q&A interviews Louis Listerud and Stephen Bonett to learn more about the criminalization of HIV and its disproportionate impact on Black queer and trans individuals.

Read more:
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Can AI predict your medical wishes better than family? @BioethicsforPPL https://t.co/v7qTdYaZHv