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  • Read more: Feb 28: Ruth Grant speaking to the HMS Division of Medical Ethics
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    Feb 28: Ruth Grant speaking to the HMS Division of Medical Ethics

    Please join the HMS Division of Medical Ethics and Program in Ethics and Health for… “Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives” Ruth W. Grant, PhD Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Duke University Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:00 – 1:15 PM HMS Division of Medical Ethics 1st Floor Conference Room 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston…

  • Read more: No Doctor for the Obese?
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    No Doctor for the Obese?

    by Nir Eyal Yesterday, Boston public radio station WBUR interviewed a Massachusetts primary care physician who refuses to admit new obese patients. She claims that it’s because she lacks proper equipment, but she seems to have mixed motives. Earlier she had admitted that it’s rather because she feels that if they don’t lose the weight, “I’m paying the cost of other people’s…