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Police identify 13 deaths at unlicensed Arlington, Mansfield group homes since 2022
03/19/24 at 03:00 AMPolice identify 13 deaths at unlicensed Arlington, Mansfield group homes since 2022 Fort Worth Star-Telegram, by James Hartley; 3/14/24 At least 13 people have died since 2022 under the care of a woman who was running five unlicensed group homes in North Texas, police wrote in a warrant to search one of the homes. ... Regla “Su” Becquer, 49, was arrested Monday and charged with one count of abandoning or endangering an individual creating imminent danger of bodily injury. ... Police have said more charges are expected in their ongoing investigation. Search warrants obtained by the Star-Telegram, written by Detectives Krystallyne Robinson and Devon Coffer, show police believe the abuse was extensive.
What are important ethical implications of using Facial Recognition Technology in health care?
03/14/24 at 03:00 AMWhat are important ethical implications of using Facial Recognition Technology in health care? AMA Journal of Ethics, by Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD; orig post 2/24, redistributed 3/13/24Applications of facial recognition technology (FRT) in health care settings have been developed to identify and monitor patients as well as to diagnose genetic, medical, and behavioral conditions. The use of FRT in health care suggests the importance of informed consent, data input and analysis quality, effective communication about incidental findings, and potential influence on patient-clinician relationships. Privacy and data protection are thought to present challenges for the use of FRT for health applications.
'World's most ethical companies' list includes health systems
03/07/24 at 03:00 AM'World's most ethical companies' list includes health systemsBecker's Hospital Review, by Kelly Gooch; 3/4/24Ethisphere Institute, a for-profit company that defines and measures corporate ethical standards, has released its 2024 list of the "world's most ethical companies," which includes health systems and other healthcare companies. This year's list recognizes 136 organizations "for their unwavering commitment to business integrity." Honorees span 20 countries and 44 industries, and include 15 first-time honorees and six organizations that have been on the list since its inception 18 years ago. [Click on the title's link for the] healthcare companies that made the 2024 list, along with their headquarters. ...
Judge: Iowa hospice program told worker to ‘let people die’
03/07/24 at 03:00 AMJudge: Iowa hospice program told worker to ‘let people die’ Iowa Capital Dispatch, by Clark Kauffman; 3/5/24An Iowa judge has awarded jobless benefits to a hospice worker who allegedly quit after being told to let patients die rather than provide them with services.
Survey: Nearly half of healthcare workers witness discrimination against patients
02/21/24 at 03:00 AMSurvey: Nearly half of healthcare workers witness discrimination against patientsMcKnights Long-Term Care News, by Foster Stubbs; 2/20/24Healthcare workers (HCWs) are likely to witness discrimination in their workplaces, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund and the African American Research Collaborative. This can contribute to negative health outcomes for patients as well as emotional distress for both patients and healthcare workers.Editor's Note: What Policies and Procedures do you have in place for your hospice interdisciplinary teams, volunteers, and non-clinical staff? What diversity education and competencies do you regularly require and update?
End-of-life: The one decision AI cannot predict
02/13/24 at 03:00 AMEnd-of-life: The one decision AI cannot predictForbes, by Dr. Tal Patalon, MD, LLB, MBA; 2/10/24We often talk about personalized medicine; we hardly ever talk about personalized death. ... When training an algorithm, data scientists usually need a “ground truth” to base their algorithm on, often an objective unequivocal metric. ... However, with end-of-life decisions, such as do-not-attempt-resuscitation (as pointedly exemplified in the New England Journal of Medicine), what is the objective truth against which we train or measure the performance of the algorithm?
Hastings Center welcomes 13 new fellows
01/26/24 at 04:00 AMHastings Center Welcomes 13 New FellowsPress release; 1/25/24The Hastings Center is pleased to announce the election of the 2023 fellows. Hastings Center fellows are a group of more than 200 individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science, and technology. The latest fellows focus on a broad range of topics with ethical implications, including digital technologies, public health, disparities at the end of life, disability rights, institutional racism, pain and addiction, and climate change.
Medical assistance in dying: What are we talking about?
01/04/24 at 04:00 AMMedical assistance in dying: What are we talking about?University of Oxford Practical Ethics, by Alberto Giubilini; 1/2/24Medical assistance in dying – or “MAID”, to use the somehow infelicitous acronym – is likely to be a central topic in bioethics this year. That might not be true of bioethics as an academic field, where MAID has been widely discussed over the past 40 years. But it is likely true of bioethics as a wider societal and political area of discussion. There are two reasons to think this. First, the topic has attracted a lot of attention the last year, especially with “slippery slope” concerns around Canada’s policies. Second, MAID has recently been in the news in the UK, where national elections will take place in 2024. It is not hard to imagine it will feature in the heated political polarization that always accompanies election campaigns.
Should patients be allowed to die from anorexia?
01/04/24 at 03:00 AMShould patients be allowed to die from anorexia?DNYUZ; 1/3/24The doctors told Naomi that she could not leave the hospital. She was lying in a narrow bed at Denver Health Medical Center. Someone said something about a judge and a court order. Someone used the phrase “gravely disabled.” Naomi did not think she was gravely disabled. Still, she decided not to fight it. She could deny that she was mentally incompetent — but this would probably just be taken as proof of her mental incompetence. Of her lack of insight. She would, instead, “succumb to it.” [Read more of Naomi's story, followed by this examination of palliative care.]The field of palliative care was developed in the 1960s and ’70s, as a way to minister to dying cancer patients. Palliative care offered “comfort measures,” like symptom management and spiritual guidance, as opposed to curative treatment, for people who were in pain and would never get better. Later, the field expanded beyond oncology and end-of-life care — to reach patients with serious medical illnesses like heart disease, H.I.V. and AIDS, kidney failure, A.L.S. and dementia. Some people who receive palliative care are still fighting their diseases; in these cases, the treatment works to mitigate their suffering. [Read more of this discussion of emerging issue.]