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We typically speak of duties under “normal” circumstances, and normal certainly does not describe the current COVID-19 pandemic.
If the doctor-patient relationship is to survive the COVID-19 pandemic, it will require a unified team, trust, and a level playing field.
By Paul McLean Watching David Baltimore open the #GeneEdit Summit last week brought back a memory of the last time I saw the Nobel laureate in such a role. The 2015 #GeneEditSummit concluded with a…
By Paul McLean Advocating for patients is in a physician’s job description. Sometimes we forget that, and need a reminder. The National Rifle Association, a little itchy with its Twitter finger, needed a reminder. Gun-related…
By Paul McLean I know Nurse X only by her failures the night a young woman with asthma died gasping for breath just steps from the emergency entrance of Somerville Hospital. The preventable nature of…
By Paul McLean While I was aghast earlier this week that the White House struggled over whether to fly the flag at half-mast or full for the death of John McCain, and relieved that it…
By Paul McLean Gene editing is at once promising and perilous. Or, as John Oliver said in a recent episode of his news show, it is ”either going to kill all disease or kill every…
By Paul McLean Register here for this weeks’s event, “Putting Patients at the Center of Research: Opportunities and Challenges for Ethical and Regulatory Oversight” In a previous life I was a headline writer, so I…
