On our increasingly medicated children
A shocking (to me) report from the National Center for Health Statistics: 7.5% of children between the ages of six and seventeen used prescription medications for emotional and behavioral problems in...
View ArticleAn Ethics of Complexity
As a long-time member of the military medical community, this article caught my eye: “1 in 5 Army hospital leaders suspended in 2 years: What’s behind the discipline?” The reasons for these suspensions...
View ArticleA different type of virtue
Last August while I was leading a faculty discussion of how emerging adults (a sociological term for those in the 18-29 age group) had been found to think about morality in a sociological study and how...
View Article“Grace” as a principle for the medical profession
The other day I was speaking to another physician about grace. This was at church, not surprisingly, but later I wondered why such discussions don’t occur in the hospital. When I recall the more...
View ArticleSpeaking about dignity
Several years ago, while on the verge of delivering the baby of a seventeen year old, I was taken aback by the number of friends that she had asked to accompany her at the event…an event formerly...
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