Who Should Decide Who Gets a Transplant?

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Watch this segment from HuffPo Live on two children denied transplants because they were not deemed mentally capable enough to benefit.  Two angry moms are fighting back.  Love to hear your thoughts.
 

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Informed Consent 1950s Style

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In her deservedly best-selling book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot reproduces the language of Lacks’s informed consent document when she was about to undergoing her cancer surgery at Johns Hopkins in 1951:    I hereby give consent to the staff of the Johns Hopkins Hospital to    perform any operative procedures and under any anesthetic…

Are Doctors Afraid to Talk Math with Their Patients?

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Before patients can become savvy consumers of healthcare, they need information about their healthcare choices.  Too often, such information is nearly impossible to get, especially when it requires doctors to give patients useful statistics about things like treatment side effects. Since publishing Critical Decisions this fall, I have received a number of emails from readers who…

Is It Wrong for Medical Students to "Tattle" on Their Supervisors?

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Alex, a third-year medical student, is in the middle of his surgery rotation. He frequently finds himself rather shocked by some of the unseemly remarks that his attending, Dr. Tate, makes during surgery and between seeing patients on rounds. A highly respected surgeon, Dr. Tate is personable with patients and well liked by them, but…

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