Back in April, this blog featured two posts analyzing the disturbing and distorted coverage of an investigation of suspicious deaths at a nursing home in Woodstock, IL. The analysis can be accessed here (part 1) and here (part 2). The story in brief: After a long investigation into suspicious deaths at a nursing home in … Continue reading Update on Woodstock Nursing Home Deaths – IL DPH Issues Report
Turns out the story ABC was doing on Warnock did run – and included part of Art Caplan’s remarks: When Dr. Jonathan Groner, a surgeon and ethicist at Ohio State University, heard of a suggestion by a well-known British philosopher that those with dementia have a “duty to die” in order to minimize the burden … Continue reading Followup on Caplan, Warnock and ABC
Art Caplan, Director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, dropped me a line to give me his reaction to Warnock’s comments about people with dementia. He gave these to a reporter at ABC but says they weren’t used in whatever coverage they ended up giving to Warnock: No one has a duty to … Continue reading Followup on Warnock – Art Caplan Strongly Disagrees With “Duty to Die”
Last week, Baroness Warnock, a well-known “ethicist” who has advised the British Government on health care policy for ages, shocked advocates for the elderly in the UK when she suggested that people with dementia should be assisted in killing themselves or even outright killed. She suggested that the lives of these people are a “waste” … Continue reading Bioethics Blog Defends Warnock’s Call for Killing of People with Dementia
Universal health coverage, like so many things those of us living below the median income line could use, is probably off the table now that we’ve got to figure out how to prevent total economic meltdown — in which we all get to pay for the bad behavior of rich people who operated in an … Continue reading Painfully True Humor from The Onion
