Aducanumab: A Bitter Pill to Swallow
Patients are understandably desperate, but their needs are best served by following the science, rather than lowering the standards for drugs.
Emily Largent
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Read more: Preparing to Go Back to the Bedside During COVID-19: A Nurse-Turned-Bioethicist Reflects Preparing to Go Back to the Bedside During COVID-19: A Nurse-Turned-Bioethicist Reflects
This was the first time in a long time that I’ve renewed my nursing license with the thought that I might need it — that I might be needed.
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Read more: Should we Pay Organ Donors? A Response to the Washington Post Should we Pay Organ Donors? A Response to the Washington Post
A real-world test of regulated payments is needed to show definitively whether this is a viable method of increasing the supply of kidneys for transplantation or not.
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Read more: State-Level Solutions to Discrimination in Organ Transplants State-Level Solutions to Discrimination in Organ Transplants
By Emily Largent In recent years, alleged instances of discrimination against people with disabilities in organ transplantation have captured public attention. In 2012, for example, the parents of Amelia Rivera, a child with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, alleged that they were told their daughter was not a candidate for a kidney transplant because of her “mental retardation.” The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia denied “disqualify[ing] transplant patients on the basis of intellectual ability.” Nevertheless, more…
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Read more: Remembering Alan Wertheimer Remembering Alan Wertheimer
By Emily Largent A week ago, I received the sad news that Alan Wertheimer had passed away. Alan made many important contributions to the philosophical literature, including Coercion and Exploitation. And while Alan would tell you that he did not identify as a bioethicist, he made significant contributions to the bioethics literature as well. I am…
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Read more: Pay Disparities in Nursing Pay Disparities in Nursing
By Emily Largent I’ve mentioned on this blog before that I had a past life as a nurse. Therefore, I wanted to call attention to an important new study that has just come out in JAMA: Salary Differences Between Male and Female Registered Nurses in the United States. The study found that “[m]ale RNs outearned female RNs…
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Read more: M.C. v. Aaronson – Update M.C. v. Aaronson – Update
By Emily Largent In 2013, M.C. (a minor child), by and through his adoptive parents, filed a complaint in federal district court against the physicians who recommended and performed M.C.’s sex assignment surgery and the South Carolina Department of Social Services (SCDSS) officials who authorized it. This was the first lawsuit of its kind filed on behalf…
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Read more: UCLA, CREA, and FDA UCLA, CREA, and FDA
By Emily Largent Before law school, I worked as a nurse at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The work was interesting, as was the news. I was there when the Los Angeles Times published an investigation revealing that Japanese gang figures received liver transplants at UCLA and when the Times reported on UCLA employees illegally viewing medical records…
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Read more: Vaccines and the Presidential Campaign Vaccines and the Presidential Campaign
By Emily Largent The 2016 Presidential race is gathering steam, and this has led me to wonder what–if any–effect the recent measles outbreak might have on campaigns. While a majority of the public holds the view that vaccinating kids is the right thing to do, a growing number of people are eschewing vaccinations. Moreover, it has been said…
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Read more: Caffeine and the Law Caffeine and the Law
By Emily Largent Generally speaking, law school goes more smoothly when the law student is caffeinated. Consider that Justice Elena Kagan was known at Harvard Law School as the “coffee dean” for instituting free coffee for students (and, as an aside, expects to be known as the “frozen yogurt justice” for bringing frozen yogurt to…