Glaringly obvious issues with how the 'Trolley Problem' has taken on a life of its own in engineering ethics.
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

A man just collapsed at the ATL airport. Unresponsive. Not breathing. Turning blue. All in an instant, strangers raced to his aid—some administering CPR, others grabbing the defibrillators nearby—as several of us stood praying. After a scary minute or so, he kicked a leg and…

Slide deck here: drive.google.com/file/d/1JPYgz3…

“I feel bad for those people,” said Dr. Woodcock, who became the F.D.A.’s acting commissioner in January 2021 [...]. “I believe their suffering should be acknowledged, that they have real problems, and they should be taken seriously.” nytimes.com/2024/05/03/hea…

Adam Omelianchuk Christos Lazaridis Richard Choi, DO This is absolute rubbish. A totally new explanation that seems designed to circumvent objections. And so the gerrymandering continues…

Adam Omelianchuk Christos Lazaridis Richard Choi, DO And a bit of a bizarre claim since heart transplants after brain death (traditional DBD) do very well. And also strange since brain death is (almost) ensured specifically by the clamping and likely wouldn’t occur without it.

Adam Omelianchuk Christos Lazaridis Agree with others that this is not typically what is described as the reason for the clamping. Interestingly, someone shared with me that the adrenal storm sometimes seen with clamping leads to pulmonary edema and could actually worsen 🫁 function?

Adam Omelianchuk Christos Lazaridis Richard Choi, DO Just went through stack of NRP articles. Not how anybody else explains purpose.

Adam Omelianchuk Richard Choi, DO Um..no..we have not “widely misunderstood” the purpose, and it has nothing to do with toxicity to the heart, I mean great if true but irrelevant.

Interesting article summarizing #NRP and why cross-clamping is done. Notably, it is not to ensure brain death or prevent resuscitation, but rather to prevent injury to the heart. Would be curious what Christos Lazaridis and Richard Choi, DO think about this :) journals.lww.com/co-transplanta…

Good article but misleading title. ECMO is redefining what it means to be on a bridge to nowhere, not the meaning of death.

This podcast reveals how complex life-limiting treatment decisions can be. It's about a nurse who expressed a long-time preference for comfort measures if she were to suffer a debilitating disease. Then she gets ALS, does the opposite, & isn't unreasonable
hiddenbrain.org/podcast/the-ve…

EMTALA, abortion, and life-saving treatment are all in the news. Plus Alito and Gorsuch. Texas went through some of these questions in 2022 and I wrote about it for Hastings: thehastingscenter.org/dusting-off-do…

NEW: Texas Appeals Court Dismisses Defamation Suit Against ProPublica, Houston Chronicle propublica.org/article/texas-…

China's Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made nature.com/articles/d4158…

Two new articles on #NRP from a Catholic medical ethics journal.

Pro: chausa.org/publications/h…

Con: chausa.org/publications/h…

I think both are wrong on certain points, but the discussion is still interesting.