Gernie’s Bioethics
@lookout-bioethics.bsky.social
Bioethicist, Physiologist, Pub Health-ist, Advocate-ist. DrPH, PhD, MPH, HEC-C
This NYT story, while describing a tech context, is relevant to my team’s poster preso at ASGCT this week - Do broad claims of trade secret protections create harm?
We ask whether patient safety is impacted if/when the veil of trade secrets is unquestioned.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/t...
We ask whether patient safety is impacted if/when the veil of trade secrets is unquestioned.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/t...
May 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This NYT story, while describing a tech context, is relevant to my team’s poster preso at ASGCT this week - Do broad claims of trade secret protections create harm?
We ask whether patient safety is impacted if/when the veil of trade secrets is unquestioned.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/t...
We ask whether patient safety is impacted if/when the veil of trade secrets is unquestioned.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/t...
Póster #1857 is up @asgct New Orleans! Come and see us from 5:30-7p
May 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Póster #1857 is up @asgct New Orleans! Come and see us from 5:30-7p
Just a point of reference as to what Bainbridge Island (elected) Councilmembers and (voluntary committee and board members) are permitted to accept as gifts.
May 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Just a point of reference as to what Bainbridge Island (elected) Councilmembers and (voluntary committee and board members) are permitted to accept as gifts.
Scientists’ curiosity about “the how” is endless. Also; humble ones don’t presume/or make conclusions in areas where they aren’t experts….
So I’m crowdsourcing here.
It sure SEEMS like passenger capacity far exceeds lifeboat capacity.
I look forward to learning how there’s more behind the photo
So I’m crowdsourcing here.
It sure SEEMS like passenger capacity far exceeds lifeboat capacity.
I look forward to learning how there’s more behind the photo
April 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Scientists’ curiosity about “the how” is endless. Also; humble ones don’t presume/or make conclusions in areas where they aren’t experts….
So I’m crowdsourcing here.
It sure SEEMS like passenger capacity far exceeds lifeboat capacity.
I look forward to learning how there’s more behind the photo
So I’m crowdsourcing here.
It sure SEEMS like passenger capacity far exceeds lifeboat capacity.
I look forward to learning how there’s more behind the photo
Today, on the most important day in Christian faith, how does POTUS’s Easter message the conform to Christ’s teachings?
Luke 6; 27-28; I tell you, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
Luke 6; 27-28; I tell you, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
April 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Today, on the most important day in Christian faith, how does POTUS’s Easter message the conform to Christ’s teachings?
Luke 6; 27-28; I tell you, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
Luke 6; 27-28; I tell you, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
It’s condition upon arrival yesterday says a great deal….
April 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It’s condition upon arrival yesterday says a great deal….
When we describe truth telling as “courageous”, I’m pretty sure there’s something very very wrong with our political leadership.
This, like current measles outbreak, was entirely preventable and clearly illustrates how the DHHS Sec lied in his confirmation.
Senator (Dr) Cassidy?
This, like current measles outbreak, was entirely preventable and clearly illustrates how the DHHS Sec lied in his confirmation.
Senator (Dr) Cassidy?
March 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
When we describe truth telling as “courageous”, I’m pretty sure there’s something very very wrong with our political leadership.
This, like current measles outbreak, was entirely preventable and clearly illustrates how the DHHS Sec lied in his confirmation.
Senator (Dr) Cassidy?
This, like current measles outbreak, was entirely preventable and clearly illustrates how the DHHS Sec lied in his confirmation.
Senator (Dr) Cassidy?
May you Rest in Peace, Big George. A teacher of many lessons, but one of the greatest is to laugh at oneself/never take yourself too seriously.
Humility of the highest order from a man who totally could have…
Humility of the highest order from a man who totally could have…
March 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
May you Rest in Peace, Big George. A teacher of many lessons, but one of the greatest is to laugh at oneself/never take yourself too seriously.
Humility of the highest order from a man who totally could have…
Humility of the highest order from a man who totally could have…
Photo 1; My homage to Tom Beauchamp: (a name every bioethicist knows) comes from a piece he & wife wrote for the Baltimore Sun in 2000.
Photo 2 is my poster yesterday @Seattle Children's & PNRI Rare Disease Day - I’m so proud to have been included.
The pink post-it note (top left) is TB’s homage
Photo 2 is my poster yesterday @Seattle Children's & PNRI Rare Disease Day - I’m so proud to have been included.
The pink post-it note (top left) is TB’s homage
March 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Photo 1; My homage to Tom Beauchamp: (a name every bioethicist knows) comes from a piece he & wife wrote for the Baltimore Sun in 2000.
Photo 2 is my poster yesterday @Seattle Children's & PNRI Rare Disease Day - I’m so proud to have been included.
The pink post-it note (top left) is TB’s homage
Photo 2 is my poster yesterday @Seattle Children's & PNRI Rare Disease Day - I’m so proud to have been included.
The pink post-it note (top left) is TB’s homage
The beautiful and often underrated Olympic Range
February 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The beautiful and often underrated Olympic Range
Recently, a friend sent me a TJ quote which took me down a rabbit hole. In it, I found this, which got me asking why our culture prefers to embrace a myth 🆚 the truth? As an ethicist, I find TJ’s actual quote to be one demonstrating agency & courage. To me, the patriotic mythical 1 is more prosaic.
January 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Recently, a friend sent me a TJ quote which took me down a rabbit hole. In it, I found this, which got me asking why our culture prefers to embrace a myth 🆚 the truth? As an ethicist, I find TJ’s actual quote to be one demonstrating agency & courage. To me, the patriotic mythical 1 is more prosaic.
Just putting up my resignation letter to the Metaverse here to share in this space. While not directly bioethics, it’s ethics all the same…..
January 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Just putting up my resignation letter to the Metaverse here to share in this space. While not directly bioethics, it’s ethics all the same…..
Re; LA’s new (unwritten) policy w/respect/to state pub health workers staying silent on Flu, COVID & mpox vaccines, I’m fully with Lawrence Gostin’s quote in the NPR story on this.
December 21, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Re; LA’s new (unwritten) policy w/respect/to state pub health workers staying silent on Flu, COVID & mpox vaccines, I’m fully with Lawrence Gostin’s quote in the NPR story on this.