As a hospital, you can't be associated in any way with anything that could be construed as the sale of a kidney.

Arthur Caplan

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Doris Tyler ended up having a crowdfunding campaign, went to a clinic in Georgia, and then ended up being blinded by the so-called stem cell procedure there.

The Rio Games ought to be deferred, the Games are important, but they are games and that’s not as important as a major health problem.

One of the fundamental ideas of science is that Arthur Caplan, you can say here is the draft paper, here’s an experiment I ’m working on, and exchange ideas and talk lab to lab.

Understand that you have information sometimes that is of commercial value and you are expected to use it only for scientific purposes.

They gave up on that. by Arthur Caplan

They gave up on that.

It's legal to obtain fetal tissue. You are not supposed to sell it. You can certainly make it available.

Most people tend to think first and foremost of a placebo not evoking a biological response but a psychological response, if there is indeed a biological element and you can actually find a genetic basis for it, you would absolutely be causing a revolution in clinical trial design.

It's not like you can unscrew your head and put it on someone els... by Arthur Caplan

It's not like you can unscrew your head and put it on someone else.

I think it's ludicrously stupid, you'd probably be charged with homicide if you chop somebody's head off before they're dead.

We'll probably see a head on a robot before we see it on [another... by Arthur Caplan

We'll probably see a head on a robot before we see it on [another] body.

We want you to do it, it's important to help control the outbreaks, and this is the kind of risk factor you signed up for.

They need an educational rollout( for phlebotomists) and not just issue guidance. That's very, very important.

This should have been done already.

This reminds me of the olden days when people didn't want to care for HIV patients.

The flu could kill you, a cold could kill you, COVID could kill you. The organs are scarce, we are not going to distribute them to someone who has a poor chance of living when others who are vaccinated have a better chance post-surgery of surviving.

For me there is a big challenge for media, there are tendencies to want to portray things as back to normal... but most of the world is not in that situation.

We need to know full information about the president and vice president to both permit the nation to function and to know what is going on when an election is imminent.

Duty to patient is central to all codes of ethics, so is duty to be honest and not spin information.

It's good to be public, it's good to be transparent, it's good to be frank.

The revelation that rationing occurs in the healthcare system is shocking only because most people never faced it, if you didn't have insurance, if you were homeless, you were rationed. It always has been sadly true, it just doesn't get anybody's attention.