Robert M.Veatch

Medical ethics professor at @Georgetown's Kennedy Institute of Ethics (@kieatgu)). I work on transplantation, death, patients' rights, and other bioethics areas

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

@idmonfish "Discharge"is something one does to a patient, not a description of the state of the physician.

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

The term "discharge" is offensive when applied patients, especially presidents. Discharge is what happens when one is released from custody, from the military or a prison. Hospitals don't have custody of patients. Patients are free to leave even if sometimes it is a dumb decision

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

@idmonfish Notice the implications of the similar expression 'release from the hospital."That surely implies custody. Discharge and release are very close in normal usage. When we say "the patient is discharged,"we are not commenting on fulfilling duties, we are saying the patient can leave

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

@idmonfish That's a stretch. First, duties are not fulfilled when a patient leaves. Second, the physician can't know if s/he has fulfilled duties to the patient until the patient has input. Discharging implies custody, which is wrong.

[Marco Vergano @marco_vergano]

Thank you @veatchr for sharing this: https://t.co/59tVE0H4C9

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

The Hastings Center has just published my defense of nonrandomized access to chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19.https://t.co/18nDLoa9R7

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

Alcohol appears to be responsible for 5.6% of cancers. Even moderate drinking is associated. https://t.co/mdAG4Anr8C

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

@MichaelDeem8 Thanks for your kind comment.

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

@chrisjonesgrass On-line is not helpful. Paid $300 for our subscriptions. Will cancel.

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

My Italian physician friend, Marco Vergano, tells me that today the Italian Supreme Court declared that medical aid-in-dying (what we sometimes call physician-assisted suicide) should not be proecuted when certain conditions are met.

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

"The overall absolute increase in cancer risk for one bottle of wine per week equals that of five (men) or ten cigarettes per week (women)." https://t.co/BFPJYbPehg

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

@bermaninstitute I have been urging for 20 years that, with proper consent, we Tx kidneys from HIV+ donors to HIV+ recipients. Perhaps we should also, with proper consent, place HIV+ livers into HIV- recipients who are near death. The donor, the recipient, and the Tx team should be commended.

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

College cancels football program. President says its time to access whether football is an appropriate goal. Fits with a book I am writing of the irrationality and immortality of sports competition. https://t.co/5Onc6kWNRr

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

On this day commemorating John McCain's life, what do we make of the fact that he gained his national hero status sacrificing in a war that the man who was Secretary of Defense at the time eventually concluded was a horrible, futile mistake?

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

"Are Organ Donors Really Dead: The Near-Irrelevance of Autoresuscitation" my new editorial in American Journal of Bioethics https://t.co/p8g8YvlbtF

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

"No amount of alcohol is good for your overall health, global study says" Lancet study report. https://t.co/6BrB4eAG0u

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

RIP #AlfieEvans. How can it be contrary to the best interests of a child in a semi-vegetative state to live? Perhaps Great Britain was really interested in saving money, a potentially justified argument, but that was not the court's claim.

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

Is it right to feel sort of good that my 403b is tanking if I know that a market crash is likely to further a change in the political powers that be?

[DC Bluegrass Union @DCBU]

Saturday 02/03/2018
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Country Gentlemen Tribute Band at the Lucketts Community Center
Lucketts Community Center, Leesburg VA @luckettsblugras https://t.co/cyCJ45FXTj

[Robert M.Veatch @veatchr]

The president had his physical exam today. It is now standard medical ethics (since Tarasoff) that an examining physician has a moral duty to warn others if the physician's patient poses a credible threat of serious bodily harm to others. Just thinking.