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John Lantos
Feb 294 min read
Parents prayers in the PICU
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,...
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John Lantos
Feb 114 min read
Who needs pediatric palliative care?
The central experience for families of dying children in the United States today is the experience of isolation. Childhood death has...
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John Lantos
Jan 184 min read
Shortcomings of Citizen Science
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...
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John Lantos
Dec 18, 20231 min read
Texas Abortion Decision
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:...
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John Lantos
Nov 8, 20234 min read
Tough Truths and Dissembling Discussions about Dying
Sigrid Nunez’ novel, What You Are Going Through, develops a new theme in the ongoing debate about the ethics of euthanasia and assisted...
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John Lantos
Oct 25, 20234 min read
Trashing genomics
Katherine Callahan, a neonatologist and bioethicist, offers a poignant warning about the dangers of new diagnostic genomic tests. She...
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John Lantos
Oct 2, 20236 min read
Suppressing free speech as a form of free speech?
Censorship is on the rise across America. With censorship, questions always arise about who gets censored, who gets to do the censoring,...
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John Lantos
Sep 20, 20233 min read
Another Autumn, Another COVID Jab. Or not?
In the United States, the CDC recommends the new COVID booster for everyone over the age of 6 months. In most of Europe, including...
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John Lantos
Sep 11, 20237 min read
I dare you: Read these two books together.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about turmoil in pediatric gender medicine. Nobody, not even leaders of the field, can explain the rapid rise...
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John Lantos
Aug 27, 20235 min read
Dying with dignity
Katie Englehart wrote a book trying to figure out what people mean by “death with dignity.” She proposes two very different ideas. One...
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John Lantos
Aug 23, 20234 min read
Gender-affirming treatment: life-saver or child-abuse
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...
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John Lantos
Jul 26, 20231 min read
How do you wanna die?
A few months ago, I had the opportunity to give a TED talk at Indiana University. I chose to talk about the many changes that have...
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