David N Hoffman

@JonCampbellNY It’s about time the government gets out of the physician’s examination rooms and lets willing patient make their own decisions with the advice and support of willing doctors.

NY Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins says she believes she has the votes to pass the Medical Aid in Dying Act, which would let terminally ill people request drugs to end their life. She says it’s likely the Senate will put it to a vote. The Assembly already passed it

'Special episode: The ethical debate over who can choose to die in Canada ' by Reuters World News megaphone.link/THRH7094681459 There is a great deal we can learn from our family to the north.

Breaking the silence: a doctor's plea for clarity in end-of-life care kevinmd.com/2023/01/breaki… via @kevinmd There is a simple term for withholding medically indicated care that a patient seeks based solely on the patient's age. That term is malpractice. It is really simple.

@cmorten2 You are doing better than me.

‘We can’t even get basic care done’: what it’s like doing 12-hour shifts on an understaffed NHS ward theguardian.com/society/2023/j…

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/12/23/hea…

The ethical question is this: who should decide how much hospital service a community needs, and can afford? Should the government take its finger off the scale? nytimes.com/2022/12/09/hea…

Doesn’t anyone remember Billy Boggs? Those who ignore history are fumed to repeat it. nytimes.com/2022/12/08/nyr…

'S1E5 - The Ethical Dilemmas of the Not-So-Humble Machine' by Deus Et Machina megaphone.link/SM6292206746

'S1E4 - Medical Ethics: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions' by Deus Et Machina megaphone.link/SM3646343690

HCA Hospital Staff Shared Unauthorized Photos of Dying Patient on Social Media miaminewtimes.com/news/hca-hospi… Some hospital lawyers may argue that the the hospitals's general consent allows de-identified photo's of patients allows their use. We need to do better.

"Episode Five: Faith Sommerfield - Founder of the Completed Life Initiative" by The Completed Life Initiative via #spreaker spreaker.com/user/15766728/…

Spread of Catholic hospitals limits reproductive care across the U.S. washingtonpost.com/health/2022/10…

Just in time for the Monaco memo. It is long past time for US corporations to financially incentivize disclosure, rather than obfuscations. nytimes.com/2022/10/05/tec…

via @NYTimes. In this discussion, as in the debate over abortion rights, we, as a society, need to resolve a profound ethical question: how much authority do we want to give to government over our strictly personal medical decisions. nytimes.com/2022/09/18/wor…

Is it organizational malpractice to discharge a patient who has been given a terminal diagnosis without a referral to an end of life Doula? nytimes.com/2022/08/19/sty…

via @NYTimes. Any conversation about personhood rights starts with a conversation about parenthood rights. With Fetus’s it’s no different. Parenthood should involve a gradual transfer of authority of authority from parent to child over the course of years. nytimes.com/2022/08/21/us/…

via @NYTimes. This is a scary example of artificial intelligence decision substitution, rather than decision support for an actual human. Who should society hold liable for the damages AI can cause? nytimes.com/2022/08/21/tec…

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/live/2022/08/0…. The FBI must believe that Trump not only had classified documents at his home, but that he was withholding and concealing them. Otherwise no law enforcement agency would resort to a search warrant.

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/08/07/hea… In this age of electronic medical records, all clinicians who interact with pregnant patients should consult with a healthcare lawyer and a clinical ethicist about what clinical documentation is necessary, in order to protect patient privacy