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Pregnant Georgia woman declared dead, kept in ICU over family's objection
Misogyny know a no bounds in the anti-patient autonomy movement
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
America Exported Measles to Mexico. Now What?
The U.S. is Fumbling Our Measles Response.
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Transplants, NIH, Conspiracy Theories, the Trolley Problem & the Milky Seas
What I'm Reading, Watching, and Loving
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Dr. Christine Grady, NIH Bioethics Leader and Consent Expert, “Resassigned” in Purge
The Dismantling of NIH Bioethics Paves the Way for Unethical Research
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
$2 Million Gene Therapy
An effective rare disease therapy is overshadowed by the cost, while pharma rakes in cash
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Be a Strong Link for Immigrant Patients 🔗
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West Texas Measles Outbreak
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Dr. Christine Grady, NIH Bioethics Leader and Consent Expert, “Resassigned” in Purge
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New Year, Same Toxic Wellness Marketing
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West Texas Measles Outbreak
One in five kindergarteners in Gaines County schools has a non-medical vaccine exemption. Low vaccination rates prime the area for the easy, natural…
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Eggsactly What I Needed
A good laugh about 100,000 stolen eggs
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5 Pioneering Women Behind the Drape
Trailblazing, innovating, and transforming patient care—meet the living women in anesthesiology who changed the profession.
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Be a Strong Link for Immigrant Patients 🔗
Enhance the ethical care of all patients when immigration agents enter hospitals
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Broken Baby Bones
Unexplained injuries lead to NICU nurse arrest
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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New Year, Same Toxic Wellness Marketing
Healthism is the Pervasive, Profitable Misconception Shaping Our Resolutions
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Breaking from Chronic Stress of Doctoring
Taking much needed time away from the often unrelenting stress of caring for critically ill kids
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Curious Bioethics: December 7, 2024
Public response to CEO shooting, failure of self-regulation in medicine, being trans in America, medical/dental integration ethics
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😷27 Gifts for Exhausted Healthcare Workers
A 2024 Gift List for the Hard-working Healthcare Workers You Love
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Dr. Burgart pulls the curtain aside on the House of Medicine, revealing how injustice and politics impact patients—equipping you to discuss complex issues with wit, confidence, and clarity.
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