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Mortgaging Your Womb

Byadmin September 13, 2012

I recently participated in a conversation on HuffPo Live about whether fertility finance companies are preying on families desperate to have children. Watch the segment here.

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Doctor’s office or campaign office? Your turn to vote!
Byadmin October 27, 2010

I need to know what you think of the following situation. You walk into your doctor’s office, turn your insurance information into the clerk, take a seat in the waiting room and discover the following letter sitting on the couch-side table, authored by your very own doctor: “Dear Patient: Section 1311 of the new health…

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New podcast on research ethics and stubbornness
Byadmin February 28, 2011

Check out my latest podcast, which accompanies a new article I co-authored with Robert Silbergleit. In the article, and in the podcast, I discuss a problem plaguing clinical research: that doctors are sometimes not convinced by previous research, and thus want to see more evidence before changing their practice, but at the same time experts,…

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Should Doctors Give Medical Advice to Strangers over Email?
Byadmin March 11, 2013

Recently I received an email from someone I have never met, who asked me the following: “Could you refer me to any current study results on Arimidex (Anastrozole)? My oncologist is not helpful. My oncotype dx said I have 9% chance of recurrence and with Arimidex for 5 years that is reduced to 4.5 %….

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What's Fair About Price Discrimination in Pharmaceutical Markets
Byadmin December 12, 2013

A while back, DVD companies hoping to sell their products in countries like Poland faced a dilemma. They could sell their products at a nice profit in the booming U.S. market, but to sell products in those other countries, they had to lower their prices. Such variable pricing is a common business practice. All kinds of services…

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Death by Poison – A New American Epidemic
Byadmin September 12, 2019January 6, 2020

I’ll get right to the dismal data: Americans are dying from poison at an alarming rate. In 2005, death by poison in the U.S. occurred in about 11 of every 100,000 people over age 15. By 2016, that number had more than doubled, to 24. Any guesses at what could explain this horrific statistic? (To…

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A Debate on Death with Dignity
Byadmin September 11, 2013

The below post is a response to my article Death With Dignity Should Not Be Equated With Physician Assisted Suicide by Kathryn L. Tucker, JD. My own thoughts on her response are here. In a Forbes.com oped, “Death With Dignity Should Not Be Equated With Physician Assisted Suicide, Duke University physician Peter Ubel writes: “I think it is wrong-headed to…

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Mortgaging Your Womb

Doctor’s office or campaign office? Your turn to vote!

New podcast on research ethics and stubbornness

Should Doctors Give Medical Advice to Strangers over Email?

What's Fair About Price Discrimination in Pharmaceutical Markets

Death by Poison – A New American Epidemic

A Debate on Death with Dignity

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