Between Dignity and Desperation: A Medical Student’s Reflection on Death
A normal part of being in the medical field is being confronted with death. We talk about it in textbooks filled with statistical terms…
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Happy Mother’s Day: The Unprecedented Case of Baby M and the Regulatory Pitfalls of Assisted Reproductive Technology Living in a State without Enforceable Surrogacy Contracts
Surrogacy has been a hotly contested legal topic, with opponents arguing it commodifies children and reduces the female body to an incubator, and proponents…
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To Pull or Not to Pull: The Trolley Problem and its Application to Medicine
The trolley problem is a classic example of an ethical thought experiment. The fictional conundrum is as follows: you are an onlooker watching a…
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Wegovy: It’s all the Rage
Discussion over glucagon-like peptide analogs (GLPs) has become a medical hot-topic, extending beyond clinical discussion and becoming a cultural phenomenon. Marketed as a weight-loss…
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