Essays

Essay (noun):
An attempt at connecting your personal experience, ideas, and memories to people outside of yourself.

Clinician looking for value from ethics
How Do Clinical Ethicists Add Value to Clinicians?
Navigating the complexities of patient care can be a daunting task for healthcare providers. Between the myriad of treatment options and variety of patient preferences, it’s no wonder that clinicians...
Bioethics to Medical Ethics
Medical Ethics To Bioethics: a Historical Journey
The field of medical ethics has undergone a significant transformation to become what we now know as bioethics. This shift from a religiously dominated area of study to a secular scientific field has had...
Brain Death
History of Death by Neurological Criteria/Brain Death
Brain Death or Death by Neurological Criteria is a “nerve” racking topic for anyone in the medical field. This brief review describes the Death by Neurological Criteria/Brain Death History and concludes...
Human Dignity
The Pluralistic Roots of Human Dignity
Twitter The idea that we all have an innate human dignity has dominated traditional ethics. To speak to our pluralistic society, secular ethics has formed a sound theory on Autonomy, Beneficence,...
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