Ethical perspectives in health care by members of the Health Care Ethics Internship Program.
HCEI Interns and Ethics Center bioethics staff share perspectives around a variety of health care and bioethics related ethical dilemmas.
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Endometriosis affects 1 in ten women, yet the average diagnosis takes 7–12 years. This diagnostic delay is not a medical mystery–it is a credibility crisis rooted in systemic gender bias in medicine. Accountability is a scientific obligation and an overdue legislative call to action.
Immigration enforcement in and around hospitals threatens trust, decreases quality, disrupts health care delivery, and places clinicians in morally impossible positions. This piece argues for concrete, legal hospital policies that protect patient safety, privacy, rights, and staff integrity.
Pulse oximeters are essential tools for triage and treatment, yet they are significantly more likely to miss dangerously low oxygen levels in patients with darker skin. This discrepancy raises a fundamental ethical challenge: can a health care system justify a foreseeable and preventable distribution of harm in the name of population-level efficiency?
A Study in Health Care EthicsTianyu Tan, biology major, highlights facts about the Rabies virus and exploring ethical issues regarding diagnosis, access, and the high cost of obtaining necessary rabies treatments.
The role that spirituality and religion may play in the Hispanic mortality paradox requires rethinking how spirituality and health care coexist.
