On Social Suicide Prevention, Don’t Let the Perfect be the Enemy of the Good
The argument that Facebook’s suicide prediction algorithm should be subject to the same regulatory regime as medicine and digital health is misguided and alarmist.
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Read more: Artificial Intelligence for Suicide Prediction Artificial Intelligence for Suicide Prediction
Suicide is a global problem that causes 800,000 deaths per year worldwide. In the United States, suicide rates rose by 25 percent in the past two decades, and suicide now kills 45,000 Americans each year, which is more than auto accidents or homicides. Traditional methods of predicting suicide, such as questionnaires administered by doctors, are…
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Read more: Taking action to prevent male suicide Taking action to prevent male suicide
By John Tingle The issue of male suicide and prevention seems to have been an obscured or perhaps even a forgotten issue in reports discussing the care of vulnerable people. The UK media have recently focussed on this issue with the Project Eighty-Four campaign. This campaign aims to raise awareness of male suicide with sculptures…
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Read more: “Ex-Gay” Speaker, Attempted Suicide, and HCSMs “Ex-Gay” Speaker, Attempted Suicide, and HCSMs
On February 16, Jackie Hill-Perry, an outspoken speaker against homosexuality, delivered a controversial, unapologetically homophobic speech at Harvard’s Emerson Hall. Harvard College Faith and Action, the religious student group that invited Hill-Perry, reserved all the center-front seats for attendees “engaged in protest,” who were “welcomed” to their space of worship. This seemingly beneficent seating arrangement,…
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Read more: Medical Malpractice and the Middle-Ground Fallacy: Should Victims’ Families Recover Compensation for Emotional Harm? Medical Malpractice and the Middle-Ground Fallacy: Should Victims’ Families Recover Compensation for Emotional Harm?
By Alex Stein Medical malpractice victims are generally entitled to recover compensation for emotional harm they endure: see, e.g., Alexander v. Scheid, 726 N.E.2d 272, 283–84 (Ind. 2000). But what about a victim’s close family member? Take a person who suffers emotional distress from witnessing a medical mistreatment and the consequent injury or demise of her…
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Read more: “Proximate Cause” and the Patient Suicide Problem “Proximate Cause” and the Patient Suicide Problem
By Alex Stein This difficult problem and the underlying human tragedy have recently been adjudicated by the Supreme Court of Mississippi in Truddle v. Baptist Memorial Hosp.-Desoto, Inc., — So.3d —- (Miss. 2014). A hospital patient suffering from a number of illnesses became agitated and aggressive. He took the IV out of his arm and attempted…