by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Sep 24, 2022 | Healthcare Ethics
I am not Mr. Manners, but there is one thing I know: when someone says, “For personal reasons, I don’t want to do this,” what they are really saying is “It’s none of your business why I don’t want to do this.” Robert Heinlein wrote a book called Friday, in which the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Apr 5, 2022 | Healthcare Ethics
Is obese vs. has obesity. Is diabetic vs. has diabetes. Is hypertensive vs. has hypertension. Is pregnant vs. has a fetus. Is ill vs. has an illness. There much talk about words and grammar within healthcare, and for the most part I think it’s all to the good....
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Feb 27, 2022 | EHR, Healthcare Ethics, Philosophy
I recently read a solid research article about healthcare bias called Examination of Stigmatizing Language in the Electronic Health Record published in JAMA Network Open. The article concluded that “findings suggest that stigmatizing language appears in...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Feb 14, 2022 | AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Healthcare Ethics, Physician Career
When applying for a healthcare job, I expect that acceptable data for a potential employer to collect would include such things as prior employment history, educational history, email address, etc. And I certainly believe in many healthcare jobs, background checks are...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Jan 14, 2022 | AI Ethics, Healthcare Ethics, Philosophy
In a recent New York Review of Books article by Jake Bernstein (Loopholes for Kleptocrats, referencing the books American Kleptocracy: How the US Created the Worlds Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History, by Casey Michel and The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Sep 10, 2021 | Big Data, Deontology, EHR, Healthcare Ethics, Philosophy
No, says the Deontologist. Yes, says the Utilitarian. Consider the following question: We know that bariatric surgery offers significant benefits to patients with diabetes and obesity. These benefits include a 68% lower cardiovascular mortality. (Ref: Association...
