Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA (BurgartBioethix)

@alyssaburgart.com

😷Stanford Bioethics, Peds Anesthesiology, Feminist Gender & Sexuality 🧭Writes about bioethics @ PoppiesAndPropofol.com ❤️‍🩹 Founder, The Moral Injury Clinic (She/her/they/them)

It is the professional obligation of health care workers to ensure that patients benefit from the therapies they are providing, that they are not harmed; that patients get to make decisions for themselves that are in their own best interest; and that all patients receive just access to care.

These are the four most basic principles of bioethics. This policy appears to violate every single one of them.

Cal Matters headline: ‘I would have been a great mom’: California finally pays reparations to woman it sterilized (2024)

Further, she noted that the administrative record included papers on data collection and studies related to trans suicide risk.

"It's strongly suggested that the BOP expects an increase in trans suicides, and rather than preventing these outcomes, it wants to sit by and collect the data," Vaca wrote.

I suppose you could call it an experiment to see how many more trans people are profoundly harmed and perhaps killed in the prison system - Burgart said

The human being who would not harm you on an individual, face-to-face basis, who is charitable, civic minded, loving, and devout,
will wound or kill you from behind the corporate veil.
-Morton Mintz

Vinay Prasad returns to the FDA, weeks after his ouster
Marty Makary’s deputy is back as top vaccine and biologics regulator

ICDs have two parts: the ICD generator box and the electrical leads. The device sits under the skin on the left or right side of the chest, and the leads are inserted in the atrium and ventricle to both sense what the heart is doing, and to automatically deliver electrical impulses in response. Image source: Heart Foundation

The court stated that delaying the execution due to an inability to get Brown’s device deactivated amounts to a “stay of execution” that they didn’t have the authority to authorize. The irony of this argument, when Brown was sentenced to death in 1988, is not lost on me.

Idaho leads in both medical and non-medical exemptions

Since 1971, Texas has allowed both medical and religious exemptions. In 2003, the Texas Legislature passed a provision allowing for a conscientious exemption to vaccination. All parents must do to exempt a child from vaccination and still attend public school is submit a simple affidavit to the Department of Health.

An envelope says “open when first patient dies”

ICE and CPB agents should be treated like any other hospital visitor - with restricted access.

When I started the Moral Injury Clinic last year, I knew in my soul and in my bones that there was value in the work of learning about and exploring moral harms in real time, not just for myself, but for other people, aiming to make sense of the pain we experience related to our moral lives.

Doctors are sadists who like to play god and watch lesser people scream. - Allison Janney in Juno 2007

Hit list was found in shooting suspect’s car with nearly 70 different targets, including abortion providers and lawmakers, officials say

Georgia Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Force a Brain-Dead Woman's Body to Incubate a Fetus

Why abortion bans violate medical ethics.

So, during the largest measles outbreak in recent history, RFK Jr tapped a discredited anti-vaccine figure to study this already disproven link. David Geier — who lacks a medical degree and was previously sanctioned for practicing medicine without a license — is reportedly leading the effort. Geier and his father, Mark Geier3 (whose medical license was revoked in several states due to harming patients with dangerous autism “treatments”), have long promoted debunked claims that thimerosal, a vaccine preservative, causes autism.

Foreground - Sierra the Chihuahua. Background - The Autumn Ghost by Hannah Wunsch

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CDC graph: showing COVID is not limited to winter seasonality like other common respiratory illnesses. https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/covid-19-can-surge-throughout-the-year.html

Screenshot of a post from “congressman Greg Murphy, MD” : #1 reason for MD shortage is med schools admitting students who aren’t going to practice. Only 60% of med students today plan on practicing clinical medicine. Med schools need to focus on admitting students who want to take care of patients, not just get their MD”

ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s not the only one who had to prove his citizenship

Some evidence suggested that the risk of functionally-impairing moral injury was higher among women (versus men), younger (versus older) HCWs, nurses (versus physicians), those who worked more versus fewer hours, and providers with less experience [13]. Also, the risk of severe moral injury symptoms was lower among individuals who identified as religious/spiritual versus those who did not [14]. The impact of COVID-19 on these prevalence rates is unclear due to the paucity of prevalence estimates for HCW PMIE exposure and moral injury prior to COVID-19. Demonstrating the pandemic’s influence, rates of annual PMIE exposure in HCWs responding to the COVID-19 pandemic decreased from 56% in 2020 to 36% in 2022, when COVID-19 related hospitalizations, deaths, and shortages had declined [15].

$“Twelve fractures on a baby?” Hackey said. “I couldn’t even fathom it. I looked at that father and we hugged and cried together.” Hackey said he was shocked to learn of Strotman’s arrest, saying he remembered her as a kind nurse and had no concerns at the time about her care. He said he spoke with other victims’ families who had shown him photos they had taken with Strotman and text messages referring to her as their favorite nurse. (WaPo)$