Caffeine and the Law
By Emily Largent Generally speaking, law school goes more smoothly when the law student is caffeinated. Consider that Justice Elena Kagan was known at Harvard Law School as the “coffee dean” for...
View ArticleVaccines and the Presidential Campaign
By Emily Largent The 2016 Presidential race is gathering steam, and this has led me to wonder what–if any–effect the recent measles outbreak might have on campaigns. While a majority of the public...
View ArticleUCLA, CREA, and FDA
By Emily Largent Before law school, I worked as a nurse at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The work was interesting, as was the news. I was there when the Los Angeles Times published an...
View ArticleM.C. v. Aaronson – Update
By Emily Largent In 2013, M.C. (a minor child), by and through his adoptive parents, filed a complaint in federal district court against the physicians who recommended and performed M.C.’s sex...
View ArticlePay Disparities in Nursing
By Emily Largent I’ve mentioned on this blog before that I had a past life as a nurse. Therefore, I wanted to call attention to an important new study that has just come out in JAMA: Salary...
View ArticleRemembering Alan Wertheimer
By Emily Largent A week ago, I received the sad news that Alan Wertheimer had passed away. Alan made many important contributions to the philosophical literature, including Coercion and Exploitation....
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State-Level Solutions to Discrimination in Organ Transplants
By Emily Largent Doctors in North Dakota perform a kidney transplant. (Photo by ndguard/Flickr) In recent years, alleged instances of discrimination against people with disabilities in organ...
View ArticleShould we Pay Organ Donors? A Response to the Washington Post
I’ve followed the recent colloquy regarding organ transplants in the pages of the Washington Post with great interest. But the suggestions merit a closer look. In December 2018, there was a front-page...
View ArticlePreparing to Go Back to the Bedside During COVID-19: A...
By Emily Largent Alarms are going off. They are loud and insistent, demanding the attention of doctors and nurses. I hear them, too. Roughly a decade ago, I was a cardiothoracic ICU nurse in Los...
View ArticleAducanumab: A Bitter Pill to Swallow
By Emily Largent On June 7, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used the Accelerated Approval pathway to approve aducanumab, which will go by the brand name Aduhelm, to treat patients with...
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