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Yoni Schenker

  • Global Health & Human Rights

    The Iraq War and Health Worker Brain Drain

    By Yoni Schenker I am writing my student fellowship paper under the broad topic of health worker “brain drain,” so I have been keeping an eye out for related news stories.  Two stories that caught…

    The Iraq War and Health Worker Brain Drain

  • Bioethics

    Professional Athletes and Personal Responsibility for Health

    By Yoni Schenker [Disclaimer: I am not involved in this, and the views expressed here are entirely my own.] Concussions and Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) have been the dominant subject of concern in the sports world…

    Professional Athletes and Personal Responsibility for Health

  • Doctor-Patient Relationship

    Part II- Medicine’s Battle of the Experts: A Patient’s Perspective on Navigating Conflicting Medical Advice

    By Yoni Schenker In Part I, I described my testicular cancer diagnosis and pre-operation experience in an attempt to demonstrate how defragmentation in healthcare could reduce patient emotional and psychological stress.  In Part II, I…

    Part II- Medicine’s Battle of the Experts: A Patient’s Perspective on Navigating Conflicting Medical Advice

  • Doctor-Patient Relationship

    Part I- Fragmentation in Health Care: The Patient’s Perspective

    By Yoni Schenker This past September, I had the unfortunate and ironic experience of transitioning from conducting research on the American healthcare system to being a patient in the American healthcare system.  In September, I…

    Part I- Fragmentation in Health Care: The Patient’s Perspective

  • Bioethics

    Is the Self Defense Exception Consistent with the Belief that a Fetus is a Person?

    By Yoni Schenker In Glenn Cohen’s first post on this blog, he questioned whether Mitt Romney’s position on abortion was coherent with respect to the rape and incest exception, but did not question the self-defense…

    Is the Self Defense Exception Consistent with the Belief that a Fetus is a Person?