Telehealth amid COVID-19: What Health Care Providers Should Know
A primer to help medical professionals understand telehealth in this moment and choose technologies to support quality patient care.
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Read more: New TWIHL with Wendy Mariner and Michael Ulrich New TWIHL with Wendy Mariner and Michael Ulrich
My guests are Wendy Mariner and Michael Ulrich. At Boston University School of Public Health, Mariner is the Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Professor in the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, Professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy & Management, and Director of the JD-MPH dual degree program. She is…
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Read more: Old and New Ways of Coping with COVID-19: Ethics Matters (Part II) Old and New Ways of Coping with COVID-19: Ethics Matters (Part II)
By Leslie Francis and Margaret Pabst Battin This post is part II of a two-part series on pandemic control strategies in response to COVID-19. New testing methods may allow us to avoid many of the inequities and injustices of the traditional methods of pandemic control, if we can deploy them quickly enough.
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Read more: Old and New Ways of Coping with COVID-19: Ethics Matters (Part I) Old and New Ways of Coping with COVID-19: Ethics Matters (Part I)
Your life and the lives of many others may depend now on isolation, quarantine, cordon sanitaire, shelter in place, or physical distancing.
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Read more: Pandemic Guidelines, Not Changed Malpractice Rules, Are the Right Response to COVID-19 Pandemic Guidelines, Not Changed Malpractice Rules, Are the Right Response to COVID-19
By Valerie Gutmann Koch, Govind Persad, and Wendy Netter Epstein On March 17, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Dr. Jeremy Faust, titled Make This Simple Change to Free Up Hospital Beds Now. In it, he argues that cities and states should “temporarily relax the legal standard of medical malpractice,” in order to encourage…
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Read more: 3 Human Rights Imperatives for Rationing Care in the Time of Coronavirus 3 Human Rights Imperatives for Rationing Care in the Time of Coronavirus
By Alicia Ely Yamin and Ole F. Norheim Scholarly and official statements and publications regarding human rights during the current pandemic have largely reiterated the important lessons learned from HIV/AIDS, Zika and Ebola, such as: engagement with affected communities; combatting stigma and discrimination; ensuring access for the most vulnerable; accounting for gendered effects; and limiting…
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Read more: Call for Submissions: Journal of Law and Biosciences, “Law and Ethics in the Time of a Global Pandemic” Call for Submissions: Journal of Law and Biosciences, “Law and Ethics in the Time of a Global Pandemic”
The Journal of Law and the Biosciences (JLB) is soliciting essays, commentaries, or short articles for a special issue on “Law and Ethics in the Time of a Global Pandemic.” For this issue we especially encourage shorter pieces, of roughly 1500 to 5000 words. If any particular aspect of how this pandemic will affect some part…
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Read more: Protecting the Vulnerable Substance Use Disorder Population During COVID-19 Protecting the Vulnerable Substance Use Disorder Population During COVID-19
By Brandon George and Nicolas P. Terry Introduction Earlier this month, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse identified those with substance use disorder (SUD) as a particularly vulnerable population during the COVID-19 pandemic. She highlighted the negative effects of opioid or methamphetamine use on respiratory and pulmonary health in addition…
