We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'Go….

Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhanci….

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it..

When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it….

Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a pric….

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical..

Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guarant….

We all focus on health care and diabetes and heart disease but there's all sorts of things like the simple fact that, you know, heavier people, trans….

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia..

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.

The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who wi….

Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about thei….

The president recognizes that funding global health is good for national security, domestic health and global diplomacy. Consequently, President Obam….

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 ….

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but g….

Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medica….

By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct mo….

Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with….

Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor ….

I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly l….

I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for Americ….