A Tale of Two (or Three) States
Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD I recently learned that my home state of Texas has refused to participate in Medicaid expansion that is part and parcel of the Affordable Care Act. When I first heard this news on...
View ArticlePurchasing Health Insurance as a Civic Duty
by Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD Every fall, I co-teach a course on justice and health care. In this course, my students and I discuss various theories of justice, examine different health systems, and...
View ArticlePalliative care’s role grows in solving end-of-life conflicts
I was recently quoted in an American Medical News article about the growth of palliative care services and their relationship to ethics consultation service. In this article, Kevin O’Reilly does a nice...
View ArticleTake Two Aspirin and Let Me Tell You What I Think About the Affordable Care Act
by Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD I recently saw a subspecialist for a medical procedure. I had never met this physician before so as he sat down to review what was going on in the monitor in front of him, the...
View ArticleDr. Fauci or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the Media’s Coverage of...
by Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD Although the Ebola virus is not ubiquitous, media coverage of it certainly is. A quick Google search of Ebola results in 37,700,000 hits. By comparison, Googling Obama results...
View ArticleThe Last Public Intellectual: the Legacy of Jon Stewart
by Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD A dozen years ago, polymath and federal appellate judge Richard Posner wrote a book called Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline. Posner took to task the group of public...
View ArticleIs There An Ethics Consultant In The House? Striving For Verisimilitude In...
by Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD and Nanette Elster, JD, MPH The new NBC medical drama Chicago Med premiered this week. A spin off of other established NBC dramas (Chicago Fire and Chicago PD), Chicago Med...
View ArticleAmusing Ourselves to Death? The Tension between Entertainment Values and...
Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD “In Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Moral Outrage
by Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way –...
View ArticleReducing Tobacco Use Through Withdrawal Policies: When Should We Ban the Use...
Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD In the first-year clinical skills course at our medical school, we offer a session on tobacco cessation. In this part of our course, we emphasize to our medical students the...
View ArticleWar Metaphors in Health Care: What Are They Good For?
by Kayhan Parsi, JD PhD Protest singer Edwin Starr powerfully asked in the early 1970s: “War, what is it good for?” Apparently, it’s good enough to use in a variety of metaphorical turns of phrase. The...
View ArticlePeer Reviewing: Paying it Forward
by Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD and Bela Fishbeyn, MS As an associate editor and executive editor of the American Journal of Bioethics, we identify and recruit peer reviewers to review manuscripts that have...
View ArticleNot So “All Right, All Right, All Right”: The Ethics of Commencement...
by Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD We are currently ensconced in graduation season. Having worked over fifteen years as a professor, I’ve been to my share of commencements. I typically enjoy these events, as...
View ArticlePeering into the Future of Peer Review
by Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD and Nanette Elster, JD, MPH If you try googling the term “peer review is,” one of the top search results is “broken.” This reflects some of the frustration and even cynicism...
View ArticleShameless: The Ethics of College Admissions
by Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD and Nanette Elster, JD, MPH To say that we live in a classist society is to say that water is wet. Yet, we need occasional reminders of this reality. For instance, the recent...
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