Indian doctors are removing the wombs of cane-cutters to increase productivity
This is a horror story from India about the intersection of poverty, sexism, exploitation, gender norms, and medical ethics. Investigative reporting in BehanBox, a feminist...
‘I can feel your pain’ — should we feel good after hearing this?
“What makes something better is connection.” Doctors and nurses have been educated to prize empathy as an essential skill in caring for patients, as this...
Munich clinic spurns Russian and Belarus patients
According to the Geneva Convention, doctors should treat equally all non-comabtant patients, even if they are on the side of the enemy. How easy it...
Nurses are the most trusted professionals in the US
For the 20th year in a row, nurses are the most trusted professionals in United States, according to an annual survey by Gallup. The poll...
Russian doctors plead for end to war
Thousands of Russian doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers have signed an open letter to President Vladimir Putin urging him to put an end to...
‘Beep, beep, beep’: the sound of going blind again
What happens when your life depends on a brilliant invention and the manufacturer stops supporting it? About 350 blind people fear the worst after a...
Should psychiatrists revise their ‘Goldwater Rule’?
American psychiatrists are ethically barred from commenting on the mental health of public figures under the so-called Goldwater Rule. This criterion, which was adopted by...
Showjumper wins right to sue over ‘wrongful conception’
A 20-year-old woman in the UK who aspires to be a paralympian has won the right to sue for millions in damages because her mother’s...
Are doctors betraying their Oath for profit?
An Australian rheumatologist and an orthopaedic surgeon have penned a scathing condemnation of modern medicine as “not fit for purpose” and a danger to human...
Top American hospitals are integrating flaky treatments into their patient services
“Wellness” is not just a buzz word; it is a gigantic global industry worth US$4.5 trillion (not billion, trillion). Despite the reputation of some segments...
Defenders of male circumcision have double standards, says bioethicist
Attacking male circumcision is an incendiary issue, largely because Jewish and Muslim communities have practiced it for millennia.
Sexual abuse by WHO staff in DRC Ebola epidemic shattered community trust
Fighting Ebola in the DRC / Médecins Sans Frontières Trust is emerging as an ethical pillar for medicine. Not that it was overlooked in the past,...