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Katie Englehart wrote a book trying to figure out what people mean by “death with dignity.” She proposes two very different ideas. One...

Two stories. In one, Trondheim, by Cormac James, a young man collapses at a bus stop.  In another, A Small Good Thing, by Raymond Carver,...

The central experience for families of dying children in the United States today is the experience of isolation.  Childhood death has...

Amy Dockser Marcus argues that the way we do science has changed.  As evidence, she tells the story of how parents of children with a...

Sorry for the glitch on my last post. I'm working on it. My thoughts on the Texas Supreme Court decision can be read here:...

Sigrid Nunez’ novel, What You Are Going Through, develops a new theme in the ongoing debate about the ethics of euthanasia and assisted...

Katherine Callahan, a neonatologist and bioethicist, offers a poignant warning about the dangers of new diagnostic genomic tests. She...

Censorship is on the rise across America. With censorship, questions always arise about who gets censored, who gets to do the censoring,...

In the United States, the CDC recommends the new COVID booster for everyone over the age of 6 months. In most of Europe, including...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about turmoil in pediatric gender medicine. Nobody, not even leaders of the field, can explain the rapid rise...

Katie Englehart wrote a book trying to figure out what people mean by “death with dignity.” She proposes two very different ideas. One...

By any account, the field of pediatric gender medicine is a mess. Even experts in the field cannot agree about what is going on, where...