"The diagnosis Dr. N entered—possible pneumonia—provided justification, but it was not the reason she admitted him. She felt responsible for the patient’s future, so she made up a diagnosis to orchestrate an admission. Dr. N figured that immigration agents could not simply wait in the hallway. She hoped they would leave.

They did."

https://slate.com/technology/2026/01/ice-hospitals-ohio-law-medicine.html

#PublicHealth #hospitals #physicians #bioethics #morality #MoralInjury #immigrant #immigration #ICE #detention

"The diagnosis Dr. N entered—possible pneumonia—provided justification, but it was not the reason she admitted him. She felt responsible for the patient’s future, so she made up a diagnosis to orchestrate an admission. Dr. N figured that immigration agents could not simply wait in the hallway. She hoped they would leave.

They did."

https://slate.com/technology/2026/01/ice-hospitals-ohio-law-medicine.html

#PublicHealth #hospitals #physicians #bioethics #morality #MoralInjury #immigrant #immigration #ICE #detention

"On the heels of a measles outbreak in Texas that killed two unvaccinated children, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he has opened an investigation into pediatricians who vaccinate because, he claims, they receive illegal financial incentives to do so."

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/texas-attorney-general-takes-aim-pediatricians-who-vaccinate-claiming-they-are

#PublicHealth #healthcare #vaccines #immunizations #physicians #pediatrics #texas

"On the heels of a measles outbreak in Texas that killed two unvaccinated children, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he has opened an investigation into pediatricians who vaccinate because, he claims, they receive illegal financial incentives to do so."

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/texas-attorney-general-takes-aim-pediatricians-who-vaccinate-claiming-they-are

#PublicHealth #healthcare #vaccines #immunizations #physicians #pediatrics #texas

"When he completed his surgical training in 1973 at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Callender says he became the third Black transplant surgeon in the world. Over the next six decades, he dedicated his entire career to saving lives and to ensuring Black people had equal access to organ transplants."

https://wordinblack.com/2025/10/hes-a-legendary-transplant-surgeon-at-88-his-work-isnt-done/

#healthcare #OrganTransplant #OrganDonation #transplantation #physicians #surgeons #disparities #advocacy #BlackMastodon

"When he completed his surgical training in 1973 at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Callender says he became the third Black transplant surgeon in the world. Over the next six decades, he dedicated his entire career to saving lives and to ensuring Black people had equal access to organ transplants."

https://wordinblack.com/2025/10/hes-a-legendary-transplant-surgeon-at-88-his-work-isnt-done/

#healthcare #OrganTransplant #OrganDonation #transplantation #physicians #surgeons #disparities #advocacy #BlackMastodon

"From his research and clinical positions at NYU and UCLA medical schools, he has an extensive publication record on the cost effectiveness of public health interventions...The handful of his former colleagues with whom we spoke remember him as once having been a capable, detail-oriented, and highly collaborative scientist. All of them were perplexed by the path he seems to have taken since the pandemic.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ladapo-florida-anti-vaccine-mysticism-brianna/

#PublicHealth #medicine #physicians #research #mysticism

"From his research and clinical positions at NYU and UCLA medical schools, he has an extensive publication record on the cost effectiveness of public health interventions...The handful of his former colleagues with whom we spoke remember him as once having been a capable, detail-oriented, and highly collaborative scientist. All of them were perplexed by the path he seems to have taken since the pandemic.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ladapo-florida-anti-vaccine-mysticism-brianna/

#PublicHealth #medicine #physicians #research #mysticism