by Matthew Rehrl MD | 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 | Philosophy
I am scheduled for a hip replacement, a surgery in which I will receive propofol as my general anesthetic. I find propofol—and all general anesthetics—are interesting at a practical, scientific, and medical level. They are a miracle of modern medicine, and it is hard...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
In his book, The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Now Know about Science, History and the Mind, the philosopher A.C. Grayling makes the claim “in plain sober truth, without overstatement, science is humanity’s greatest intellectual achievement.” This may well be true;...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
I’ve always wondered why Nietzsche went from an academic, classical philologist to what can best be described as the anti-academic philosopher. Was this a gradual evolution, a pivot, or a radical change? Well, there may be some clues to be found in his Untimely...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
One ethical question I am interested in is the relationship of an individual’s ethics with a group’s ethics (if such an entity exists). Specifically, what is the relationship between the architecture of a group and the moral responsibility of the individual who is a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
In Nietzsche’s essay An Attempt at Self-Criticism (section 2) we can find the following quote: The problem of science cannot be recognized within the context of science.Nietzsche How similar to Einstein’s better known (and much later) quote: We cannot solve our...
