⚕️ Medical Ethics Don’t Stop at the Detention-Center Door
Delayed care, interrupted medications, and inadequate treatment can have devastating consequences.
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#MedicalEthics #ICEAccountability
#medicalethics — Public Fediverse posts
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Zurich has expanded access to assisted suicide within care homes and hospitals. This policy change raises important questions for healthcare providers, legal professionals and care administrators around compliance, ethical frameworks and patient rights. Read the full analysis: https://wix.to/GhMuWIR
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Can we grow human brain tissue inside a living organism?
Stanford researchers did just that, transplanting human cortical organoids into mice.The tissue survived, connected to the nervous system, and showed organized activity.
This offers a new way to study brain development and injuries, but also raises profound ethical questions.
https://www.movetheneedle.news/brands/inside-the-mice-growing-human-brain-tissue/
#neuroscience #biotech #science #technology #drugdevelopment #drugdiscovery #lifesciences #stanforduniversity #medicalethics
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Shorts 308: Lend Me a Head?
Absurd humour from Into Your Head podcast - IntoYourHead dot ie. #headtransplant #medicalethics #darkhumor #anatomy #darkcomedy #comedy #podcasts #absurd #kittens #podcasts #comedypodcasts #absurdist #
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Netherlands Euthanizes Disabled 2-Year-Old Child Who Could Not Consent
A disabled child who could neither speak nor ask to die has been euthanized in the Netherlands, marking…
#Netherlands #Nederland #NL #Europe #Europa #EU #Assisteddeath #ChildEuthanasia #cultureofdeath #Disabilityrights #Disabledchildren #Medicalethics #pro-life #RighttoLife #sanctityoflife
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CW: CW: transphobia, psychiatric abuse, forced institutionalisation
There is a political project underway to make transgender existence pathological again.
That distinction matters.
This is not merely about terminology. It is about institutional power: who gets to define a person's identity, whose account of their own existence is considered credible, and what happens when an individual refuses the definition imposed upon them.
The historical pattern is not particularly obscure.
First, difference is classified as disorder.
Then disorder becomes evidence of incapacity.
Incapacity becomes justification for paternalism.
Paternalism becomes coercion.At that point, the institution no longer has to demonstrate that the person is dangerous. It merely has to establish that the person is not sufficiently competent to define themselves.
This is how medical authority can become a technology of social conformity.
And no, putting this process inside a psychiatric framework does not make it benevolent. Calling coercion treatment does not alter its coercive character. Calling confinement care does not make the locked door disappear.
There is a particularly grotesque irony here: people who insist that transgender identities are merely ideological constructions are perfectly willing to construct an elaborate ideological apparatus around the proposition that trans people are mentally defective.
The objective is not scientific neutrality.
It is disciplinary legitimacy.So let us dispense with the euphemisms.
If your political programme requires declaring an entire class of people mentally ill because they refuse to live according to your preferred conception of gender, you are not practising medicine. You are practising social control.
And if your proposed remedy is to remove those people from society until they become sufficiently compliant, then the problem is not their supposed pathology.
It is your willingness to manufacture pathology in order to justify their removal.
History has a name for that kind of medicine.
It is not care.
It is not neutrality.
And it is certainly not progress.We have already seen what happens when institutions are given the authority to decide which identities constitute legitimate human existence. We do not owe anyone the opportunity to repeat the experiment on us.
#TransRights #TransLiberation #TransIsNotAnIllness #QueerLiberation #MedicalEthics #HumanRights #Antifascism #EndTransphobia #NoGoingBack
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Republican Senator Faces Scrutiny Over Lawsuits Against Patients for Unpaid Medical Bills
📰 Original title: GOP senator deemed 'especially cruel' after 'bombshell' report on his medical practice
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/406100/ Abuja Organ Trafficking: Hospital Denies Involvement, Suspen #‘stay’InAbuja #AkwaIbomStateTaskForceOnHumanTrafficking #AllegedOrganTrafficking #DrBenjamnOyimeh #HealthcareNigeria #HumanOrganTrafficking #kidney #KidneyTransplant #KidneyTransplantCost #MedicalEthics #Nigeria #NigeriaPoliceForce #NPF #OrganTrafficking #SamuelEzekiel #WellingtonClinics
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Show Me Where It Hurts
I have been building and moderating conversation on the internet since the internet had conversation worth moderating, and one quarrel from those years has never let me put it down. It happened on Reddit, in one of the medical-advice communities, the ask-a-doctor kind, and the room's name has dissolved from memory while its images have refused to leave. People arrived with photographs of their own fresh cuts and posted them for assessment, and the moderators split over what they were looking at. One camp called the pictures fine in a medical setting: a patient presenting an injury to doctors, the oldest transaction in medicine arriving through a new door. The other camp read performance, attention pursued through injury, and wanted every image gone. I stood with the second camp's verdict while distrusting its reasoning, because the deletion seemed right to me for a reason neither camp was saying: whatever any single poster intended, the gallery was awe-inspiring to the wrong eyes. I could not have defended that instinct with numbers then, and now I can, so here is the argument laid out in full, the folk theory measured, the audience counted, the room itself put on the scale. […] -
Safety and security of large language models in healthcare
Gommers, J. et al. Interval cancer, sensitivity, and specificity comparing AI-supported mammography screening with standard double reading without…
#NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #CA #Canada #Computationalscience #COMPUTERSCIENCE #Diagnosis #Health #HumanitiesandSocialSciences #medicalethics #multidisciplinary #Science #translationalresearch
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Safety and security of large language models in healthcare
Gommers, J. et al. Interval cancer, sensitivity, and specificity comparing AI-supported mammography screening with standard double reading without…
#NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #Computationalscience #computerscience #Diagnosis #Health #healthcare #HumanitiesandSocialSciences #medicalethics #multidisciplinary #Science #translationalresearch #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Safety and security of large language models in healthcare
Gommers, J. et al. Interval cancer, sensitivity, and specificity comparing AI-supported mammography screening with standard double reading without…
#NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #AU #Australia #Computationalscience #computerscience #diagnosis #Health #HumanitiesandSocialSciences #Medicalethics #multidisciplinary #Science #translationalresearch
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1157936/ Safety and security of large language models in healthcare #ComputationalScience #ComputerScience #Diagnosis #Health #Healthcare #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences #MedicalEthics #multidisciplinary #Science #TranslationalResearch #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/645918/ Safety and security of large language models in healthcare #ComputationalScience #ComputerScience #diagnosis #Éire #Health #HealthCare #Healthcare #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences #IE #Ireland #MedicalEthics #multidisciplinary #Science #TranslationalResearch
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Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned
https://www.fashiontimes.co.uk/patient-privacy-concerns-meta-smart-glasses-1762492#smartglasses #meta #metaglasses #pervertglasses #glassholes #privacy #medicine #doctors #medicalethics
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'People are still dying': Lasting scars of Australia's tainted blood scandal
By Hannah Meagher and Jennifer FellerThe 1980s contaminated blood crisis devastated the lives of thousands of Australians who were infected with hepatitis C or HIV. Now, survivor Tristan Stanley, who contracted hep C as a child, has uncovered government documents that raise troubling questions about the scandal.
#Blood #Hepatitis #HumanInterest #LawCrimeandJustice #MedicalEthics #DoctorsandMedicalProfessionals #Health #HannahMeagher #JenniferFeller
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AI models design viruses not found in nature for first time
By Andrew ThorpeResearchers from Stanford University have synthesised brand-new, self-replicating viruses using genomes designed by artificial intelligence for the first time, raising the possibility of significant medical advancements but also prompting concerns the technology could be misused.
#MedicalEthics #AIEthics #Viruses #ScientificResearch #Genetics #AndrewThorpe
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Surgeon Who Self-Amputated Legs for Fetish Faces Fraud Conviction
📰 Original title: ‘I felt sick that he was near my mum’: a top amputation surgeon had his own legs removed due to a fetish. Were his patients safe?
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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#justice #medicalethics #...
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A Doctor's Struggle to Comfort a Friend Facing Terminal Cancer
📰 Original title: I Treat Cancer, But I Couldn't Save My Friend
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A Doctor's Struggle to Comfort a Friend Facing Terminal Cancer
📰 Original title: I Treat Cancer, But I Couldn't Save My Friend
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/a-doctor-s-struggle-to-comfort-a-friend-facing-terminal-cancer.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social
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Hippocrates: The Father of Medicine and the Birth of Scientific Thinking
From Temple Dreams to Natural Causes Born around 460 BCE on the Greek island of Kos, Hippocrates stands as one of the most radical intellectual revolutionaries in human history. Before him, illness was understood through a lens of myth and mystery: disease was divine punishment, demonic possession, or the result of offending the gods. Healing required prayer, sacrifice, and rituals performed by priests in temples like the Asklepieion.
Hippocrates, trained within that very temple tradition, did something unprecedented. Influenced by the pre-Socratic philosophers who sought natural explanations for cosmic phenomena, he asked a terrifyingly simple question: "What if disease is just... natural?" He proposed that illness had natural causes—environmental factors, diet, lifestyle, and bodily imbalances—that could be observed, understood, and treated through reason rather than revelation. This wasn't just a medical shift; it was the birth of scientific thinking itself. He declared that the human body operated according to discoverable principles, not the whims of supernatural beings.
The Theory of the Four Humours To explain health and disease, Hippocrates developed the Theory of the Four Humours, a systematic framework that would dominate Western medicine for two millennia. He posited that the body contained four vital fluids:
Blood (Air, Spring, Sanguine)
Phlegm (Water, Winter, Phlegmatic)
Yellow Bile (Fire, Summer, Choleric)
Black Bile (Earth, Autumn, Melancholic)
Health was defined as the perfect balance (eucrasia) of these humours; disease was an imbalance (dyscrasia). While we now know the theory is scientifically incorrect (there is no "black bile"), its philosophical brilliance lies in its holism. It connected the human body to the cosmos, linking physiology to the elements, seasons, and even personality types. It asserted that humans are not separate from nature but part of it, subject to the same laws.
Holistic Care and the Clinical Method Hippocrates revolutionized the method of healing. He moved away from treating isolated symptoms to treating the whole person. His approach considered the patient's entire lifestyle, occupation, social circumstances, environment, and mental state.
Observation: He insisted on careful, detailed observation of symptoms and their progression over time.
Documentation: The Hippocratic Corpus (a collection of ~60 treatises by him and his followers) contains detailed case studies, representing the first systematic clinical records.
Prognosis: He tracked disease patterns to predict outcomes, laying the groundwork for evidence-based medicine.
Natural Remedies: Treatments focused on restoring balance through diet, exercise, herbal remedies, and environmental changes—practices that often worked, even if the theoretical justification was flawed.
The Hippocratic Oath: Ethics as Foundation Perhaps his most enduring contribution is the Hippocratic Oath, the first comprehensive code of medical ethics. It established that medicine is not just a technical skill but a moral practice.
Non-maleficence: "Do no harm." The physician must never use their power to injure or wrong the patient.
Beneficence: Act in the patient's best interest.
Confidentiality: Protect the privacy of what is seen and heard in the course of treatment.
Professional Integrity: Maintain exemplary conduct and acknowledge human limitations.
This oath created a social contract between the healer, the patient, and society, establishing trust as the cornerstone of medicine. While modern versions have updated specific prohibitions (like those on surgery or abortion) to reflect contemporary values, the core principle remains: power must be constrained by ethics.
Legacy: A Living Tradition Hippocrates transformed medicine from a subset of theology into a distinct scientific discipline. His legacy is not just in the specific theories (which were often wrong) but in the methodology (observation, systematization, natural explanation) and the ethics (compassion, integrity, patient-first). Today, as we face new ethical dilemmas in gene editing, AI diagnostics, and end-of-life care, we still return to the Hippocratic framework. We ask: How do we balance innovation with safety? How do we treat the whole person in a high-tech world? Hippocrates' vision endures as an eternal beacon: Great medicine combines scientific rigour with profound humanity.
watch the lecture: https://tube.leshley.ca/w/jHZR1pHzvtqhzuAWLW3NYA
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SA doctor banned for inappropriate relationship with client
By Eva BlandisA former Adelaide doctor will not be able to reapply for registration for at least two years after he was banned for having an inappropriate relationship with his client.
#DoctorsandMedicalProfessionals #MedicalEthics #Health #EvaBlandis
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US Nurse Fired Over Video Suggesting She Avoids Patients Watching Fox News
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) has fired a nurse after investigating a viral social media video…
#NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #AU #Australia #FoxNews #FoxNewsviewers #Health #Medicalethics #MuslimnurseinTexas #NurseAhlam #patients #Texasnurse #UTMB #UTMBfiresnurse #ViralVideo
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/575075/ US Nurse Fired Over Video Suggesting She Avoids Patients Watching Fox News #Éire #FoxNews #FoxNewsViewers #Health #HealthCare #Healthcare #IE #Ireland #MedicalEthics #MuslimNurseInTexas #NurseAhlam #patients #TexasNurse #UTMB #UTMBFiresNurse #ViralVideo
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Clinical Medical Ethics: Landmark Works of Mark Siegler, MD 1st Edition (2017) by Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A.
Author: Laura Weiss Roberts
File Type: PDF
Download at https://unitedvrg.com/2022/12/26/pdf-clinical-medical-ethics-landmark-works-of-mark-siegler-md-1st-edition-2017-by-laura-weiss-roberts-m-d-m-a/
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Doctor’s pension reduced from Rs 1.14 lakh to Rs 14K after arrest over sexual assault
Taking action against the doctor who sexually assaulted a minor girl during medical examination at Kurukshetra’s LNJP…
#NewsBeep #News #Personalfinance ##DoctorMisconduct ##DrShailendraKumar ##KurukshetraHospital ##PensionReduction #AU #Australia #Business #childprotection #Finance #HaryanaGovernment #justiceforvictims #MedicalEthics #PersonalFinance #POSCOAct #SexualAssault
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The Persistent Echo of Henrietta Lacks: Immortal Cells, Human Cost
Henrietta Lacks's cells, taken without consent in 1951, fueled medical research but her family was not recognized for decades. Learn about the ethical issues.
#HenriettaLacks, #HeLaCells, #MedicalEthics, #InformedConsent, #BiomedicalResearch
https://newsletter.tf/henrietta-lacks-cells-ethical-questions-remain/
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Dr. Dianna T. Kenny's InTRANSigence reveals critical concerns in youth gender medicine, challenging current practices and advocating for evidence-based, compassionate approaches to adolescent mental health and identity. #YouthMentalHealth #MedicalEthics
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THE SILENCE AROUND THE DEAD
Why is Dr. John Berry investigating the death of Karen Randall in Boston? Learn about the medical inquiry into Dr. Arthur Lee and the patient's death.
#bostonnews, #medicalinvestigation, #drjohnberry, #karenrandall, #medicalethics
https://newsletter.tf/boston-dr-john-berry-investigates-karen-randall/
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Dr. John Berry is leading an independent review into the death of Karen Randall. This case is being closely watched as it involves serious questions about a medical procedure performed by Dr. Arthur Lee.
#bostonnews, #medicalinvestigation, #drjohnberry, #karenrandall, #medicalethics
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A Texas father refused to accept doctors’ plan to remove his son from life support.
Later, the son survived and recovered.
That is why this case still feels less like a headline and more like an ethical earthquake.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/47808/ Macron urges Andorra to ‘move forwards’ on decriminalising abortion | Nation #Abortion #AbortionLaw #afp #andorra #BirthControl #CivilRightsAndLiberties #CoPrincesOfAndorra #EmmanuelMacron #HealthLaw #HumanPregnancy #IssuesInEthics #MedicalEthics #MedicalLaw #MethodsOfBirthControl #PregnancyWithAbortiveOutcome #ReproductionInMammals #ReproductiveRights #SexualHealth #SocialIssues #women
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UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500 000 people are offered for sale
https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s781
#HackerNews #UKBiobank #DataLeak #HealthPrivacy #MedicalEthics #DataSecurity
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Delhi HC hears plea on sperm preservation of comatose man: Read case in detail https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/delhi-hc-sperm-preservation-coma-patient-2026-kko9cw6d?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DelhiHighCourt #ReproductiveRights #MedicalEthics #ConsentDebate
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/876590/ Video: Young doctor quits on first day, alleges patients were kept in ICU unnecessarily for profit: ‘Keep them for…’ #Health #Healthcare #HealthcareEthics #HospitalPatientAdmissionPolicies #ICUAdmissionControversies #MedicalEthics #PatientCareVsProfit #PrivateHospitalCorruption #UK #UnethicalPracticesInHealthcare #UnitedKingdom #ViralVideoDoctorResignation #YoungDoctorResigns
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AI scribes in health care raise risks for patients and privacy
#Canada #HealthCare #AI #Health #ArtificialIntelligence #Privacy #DataProtection #MedicalEthics #Technology #PublicHealth #Policy #DigitalHealth #Innovation #PatientSafety #MedicalCare
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UK govt fed radioactive chapati to Asian women without consent: Dark experiment explained https://english.mathrubhumi.com/technology/science/radioactive-chapati-coventry-experiment-south-asian-women-uk-1969-dh73z671?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #UKHistory #MedicalEthics #Coventry #SouthAsianCommunity
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Inside a Court Hearing That Decided How She’d Give Birth — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-hearing-c-section
#Journalism #ProPublica #ReproductiveRights #MaternalHealth #Florida #MedicalEthics #HealthCare #HumanRights #SocialJustice #LaborAndDelivery
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Family Accuses Doctors of Pressuring Son Towards Assisted Suicide in Canada
A Canadian family claims doctors pressured their 26-year-old son, who was not terminally ill, to use the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program. This raises questions about safeguards.
#AssistedDying, #CanadaMAID, #MedicalEthics, #PatientRights, #EndofLifeCare
https://newsletter.tf/family-alleges-doctors-pushed-son-assisted-death-canada/
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A family in Canada is concerned about their son's death through the Medical Assistance in Dying program. They say doctors may have pushed him towards this choice, even though he was not terminally ill. This brings up important questions about how the program is used and if enough care is taken to protect people.
#AssistedDying, #CanadaMAID, #MedicalEthics, #PatientRights, #EndofLifeCare
https://newsletter.tf/family-alleges-doctors-pushed-son-assisted-death-canada/
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Why are doctors warming up to generative AI? Pitt researchers explore how large language models could boost patient care, streamline workflows, and raise ethical questions. Discover the potential benefits and challenges of AI tools in clinical practice. #GenerativeAI #LargeLanguageModels #ClinicalAI #MedicalEthics
🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/pitt-examines-why-doctors-might-embrace-generative-ai-clinical
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Why drug approval in Canada should not rely on foreign regulators
#Canada #Health #DrugApproval #PharmaIndustry #PublicHealth #FDA #EMA #HealthcarePolicy #PatientSafety #MedicalEthics #Regulation #BigPharma #HealthPolicy #Politics #EvidenceBasedMedicine
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🚀 NEW on We ❤️ Open Source 🚀
Software is now medicine—and proprietary code is putting profit before patient safety.
Marcus Baw makes a compelling case for open source in healthcare. Transparency, verification, and access must come first.
https://allthingsopen.org/articles/open-source-only-way-medicine
#WeLoveOpenSource #FOSS #HealthTech #OpenScience #MedicalEthics
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The Pandemic Never Ended. We Only Pretend it Did | 🔗 https://brennan.day/the-pandemic-never-ended-we-only-pretend-it-did/
#PublicHealth #COVID-19 #ChronicIllness #MedicalEthics #SocialCommentary
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#Paywall Beating back cancer with self-made virotherapy: a Croatia-based virologist used lab-grown viruses to shrink her tumor, raising ethical debates about self-experimentation in medical research. 🧪🧬 #CancerResearch #Virotherapy #MedicalEthics
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The Rod of Asclepius teaches patience and limits. In modern care, which value feels harder to protect? #RodOfAsclepius #Asclepius #MedicalEthics #AncientMedicine #HealingSymbols #HistoryOfMedicine #CareOverCure
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Another win for the people who were too ethical, so they said, to vote for Kamala Harris - a violation of all ethical standards in medical research using the poorest people on the planet as sacrifices
#rfkjr #medicalethics #USa #vaccine