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A Tale of Tennessee Ethics
Will physicians invoke the Medical Ethics Defense Act to prevent state-sanctioned killing?
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Understanding Tennessee’s Medical Ethics Defense Act
The conscientious objection law further shields physicians who refuse to take care of patients
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Pediatricians Sue RFK Jr Over Vaccine Schedule
One more reason to love the American Academy of Pediatrics
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
The Retrievals Returns
A Podcast About Women’s Pain Is Still Relevant Two Years Later
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Bioethics Round-Up: July 2025
What I'm reading, watching and loving
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Second Opinion: Healthism, Long COVID, and Blame in Medicine
A recording from Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA and Dr. Zeest Khan's live video
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
 and 
Dr. Zeest Khan
57:21
Patient Autonomy Crushed in Major Supreme Court Ruling
Medicaid recipients just lost a core protection. Learn how the Medina ruling erodes patient choice, autonomy, and access to essential care.
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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June 2025

May 2025

April 2025

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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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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

February 2025

$2 Million Gene Therapy
An effective rare disease therapy is overshadowed by the cost, while pharma rakes in cash
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Eggsactly What I Needed
A good laugh about 100,000 stolen eggs
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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January 2025

December 2024

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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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
3
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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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
😷27 Gifts for Exhausted Healthcare Workers
A 2024 Gift List for the Hard-working Healthcare Workers You Love
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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November 2024

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