Touro undergrads experience cultural differences in healthcare on eye-opening trip to Thailand. (Courtesy of Touro University) How should pre-med students from the United States react to a hospital in Thailand that hires its all-female nursing staff based on a beauty contest? And should they have ethical concerns about an in vitro fertilization clinic in Bangkok that refuses to treat infertile couples of different religions? Twenty-six students from Touro’s Lander College for Women (LCW) and Lander College of Arts & Sciences (LAS) debated these and other questions during a midwinter break trip to Bangkok, as part of a two-week course in bioethics.
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As the U.S. undergoes the largest and fastest mass vaccination program in history, there are various ethical considerations that need to be considered. During a Facebook Live event on Jan. 27, Serena Marshall, journalist and host of the Track the Vax podcast by MedPage Today and Everyday Health
, discussed these issues with John Loike, PhD, a bioethicist and biology professor at Touro College in New York City; and Marty Makary MD, MPH, editor-in-chief at MedPage Today
, surgical oncologist and chief of the Johns Hopkins Islet Transplantation Center, professor of health policy and management, and principal investigator on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant for a project to lower healthcare costs.
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MedPage Today speaks with two experts to wade through ethical considerations as the U.S. undergoes the largest and fastest mass vaccination program in history.
Guests: John Loike, PhD, a bioethicist and biology professor at Touro College in New York City; and Marty Makary MD, MPH, editor-in-chief at
MedPage Today, surgical oncologist and chief of the Johns Hopkins Islet Transplantation Center, professor of health policy and management, and principal investigator of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant for a project to lower healthcare costs.
The discussion will be moderated by Serena Marshall, journalist and host of the Track the Vax podcast by