Bioethicist & medical sociologist. I write about clinical ethics, decision-making capacity, and conscience in medicine. Opinions my own. Reposts ≠ endorsements.https://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mvbaw6vsna2yIn Bioethics, Shang Long Yeo finds people treat opt-out organ donation as weaker evidence of a person's wishes than opting in, and are readier to let families override it. https://buff.ly/teNYMQs11 Sep 2026 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvbaw6vsna2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mvb2a34tuz2uIn a NEJM perspective, Matthew Wynia weighs physicians' choices under ethical pressure across resistance, strategic compromise, and complicity, and urges grace toward colleagues. https://buff.ly/C8boVOB11 Sep 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvb2a34tuz2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mvav3yobjs2xIn a Pediatrics supplement, Ursula Findlen and colleagues map the choices parents of deaf or hard-of-hearing children face across developmental, cultural, audiological, and medical domains as value-laden, with several defensible paths. https://buff.ly/Ax9TkzE11 Sep 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvav3yobjs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mvaq6eynok2wIn the Hastings Center Report, Brent Carr argues that LLMs' drive toward coherence is an overlooked risk in using AI to detect delusion, and that safety means protecting the capacity to stay uncertain long enough to think. https://buff.ly/LVxWQnW11 Sep 2026 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvaq6eynok2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mv6rzs2mpx2zIn the Journal of Medical Humanities, Kaldjian, Bettendorf, and Jotterand assemble a teaching collection of virtue-illustrating stories from medical journals, mapped to 12 virtues. https://buff.ly/d6c87x010 Sep 2026 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6rzs2mpx2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mv6khzdjpn2wIn JAMA, Claire Ankuda and colleagues map rural-urban disparities in the delivery and intensity of the Medicare hospice benefit, with the gap narrowing over the past decade. https://buff.ly/hnvcmEM10 Sep 2026 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6khzdjpn2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mv6c474n4g2yIn JAMA, Ezekiel Emanuel and colleagues argue autonomous AI may outperform AI-aided physicians as the best available care, and treat it as a distinct, relatively near-term possibility. https://buff.ly/6YPhL8k10 Sep 2026 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6c474n4g2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mv64emhgka2kIn an AJOB commentary on real-time location tracking in dementia care, Ravi Soni and Jean-Christophe Belisle-Pipon argue we can honor a person's expressed dissent without building an ever-expanding surveillance apparatus. https://buff.ly/YkgiUfL10 Sep 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv64emhgka2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mv4apsvq5l2xIn the Journal of Clinical Ethics, Groden, Schreiner, and Salih compare pediatric ethics consults from 1984-2007 with today, tracing how the work has shifted since the Baby Doe era. https://doi.org/10.1086/74189209 Sep 2026 19:15 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4apsvq5l2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mv3ydhypfz2gIn Bioethics, Rosalind McDougall and colleagues interview ED staff and reject zero-tolerance framing of patient and family violence, offering six values that keep staff safety central. https://buff.ly/U6OkU7F09 Sep 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3ydhypfz2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mv3pxemhsw22In an AJOB commentary, Mark Navin and Nicholas Gilpin argue that even if shorter antibiotic courses are the better default, the ethical questions do not vanish, they move. https://buff.ly/7zK3N7W09 Sep 2026 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3pxemhsw22https://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mv3nhv5zkl2xIn AJOB, Bilal Irfan and J. Wesley Boyd ask whether hospitals are moral agents, suggesting moral responsibility may be incompatible with the structure and governance of modern healthcare corporations. https://buff.ly/5PFJZep09 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3nhv5zkl2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mv235uabuk2uIn a Journal of Medical Ethics editorial, Robert Ranisch examines the role and the limits of consistency as a demand in medical ethics, a requirement everyone invokes and almost no one examines. https://buff.ly/mYVLaQ208 Sep 2026 22:30 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv235uabuk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3muzvbnpifn2uIn Bioethics, Larisa Svirsky and colleagues argue opioid treatment agreements, with their behavioral conditions and dismissal clauses, quietly sort patients into 'respectable' pain patients and everyone else. https://buff.ly/TLsmKVL08 Sep 2026 20:45 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzvbnpifn2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3muzpfy2k5t2yA practical JAMA piece by Wu, Hirsch, and Magnus on communicating with families about brain death, where the determination is rarely the hard part but the conversation is. https://buff.ly/9KeQp3P08 Sep 2026 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzpfy2k5t2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mup7cgvnah2iBioethics has an open call for papers on disability, bioethics, and medical AI, a strong venue for anyone working at the seam of disability studies and clinical algorithms. https://buff.ly/WQyUdrr04 Sep 2026 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup7cgvnah2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mup2bmudy72vThe American Journal of Bioethics leads with an ethical assessment of generative AI for clinical summarization: what is at stake when the summary a clinician reads is generated rather than written. https://buff.ly/neSE3sp04 Sep 2026 13:15 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup2bmudy72vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mumx7naxye2tDarian Goldin Stahl and Sarah de Leeuw provide, in the Journal of Medical Humanities, a longitudinal scoping review charting how health-humanities education has changed over time. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-026-10012-x03 Sep 2026 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumx7naxye2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mumrf4o64b2qKatherine Shwetz, Sabia Abidi, and Anthony Brandt describe integrating a medical humanities perspective into medical research: a clear, practical account of what humanities scholars contribute. https://buff.ly/vNu6qHK03 Sep 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumrf4o64b2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mummgufglr2iNicholas Abernethy argues, in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, that shared decision-making at end of life should start by helping patients choose how they want decisions made, not assume everyone wants the same involvement. https://buff.ly/R6jlo7W03 Sep 2026 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mummgufglr2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mukebethzd2bChristopher Dandolo, Ei Kyar Phyu, and Carmelle Peisah offer a narrative review in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry of the complexities of surgical consent in older patients, with practical solutions. https://buff.ly/0lHIB8602 Sep 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukebethzd2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3muka2ar3bl2vJay Oh and Leanne Wakefield argue in HEC Forum that moral distress is not an individual resilience deficit to manage with wellness programming, but something the structure of the organization actively produces. https://buff.ly/se4I30H02 Sep 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3muka2ar3bl2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3muk2zgcwaf2qMary McBride and Abraham Graber ask, in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, whether honoring assent truly respects the preferences of research participants with intellectual and developmental disabilities. https://buff.ly/gjVFlWK02 Sep 2026 13:45 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3muk2zgcwaf2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3muhvlvdne227Faisal Alshamaa, Olivia Charlier, and Janice Firn examine the timing of pediatric palliative care and ethics consults, finding palliative was called first 80% of the time. Room to bring ethics in earlier? https://buff.ly/1Q7QQvS01 Sep 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhvlvdne227https://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3muhnvt65xg24Eisuke Sakakibara takes up patient objectification in psychiatry in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, asking when the ordinary work of categorizing a patient tips into treating them as a mere object. https://buff.ly/m69Kd0Z01 Sep 2026 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhnvt65xg24https://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3muhlijlqlh2bMichael Robinson critiques the incompatibility thesis on conscientious objection in healthcare, arguing legitimate, sometimes conflicting interests can be held in balance with physicians' primary obligation to patients. https://buff.ly/fOxDSFu01 Sep 2026 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhlijlqlh2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mufe5krgkq23Bert Gordijn and Henk ten Have push back on spinning off new bioethics subdisciplines, arguing the field should enrich its shared toolkit rather than keep fragmenting into a standalone 'critical bioethics.' https://buff.ly/4qA0nsR31 Aug 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufe5krgkq23https://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3muf6c6qiua2xZohar Lederman makes a care-ethics case in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy for publicly funding social prescribing: connecting lonely patients to community activities rather than to a pill. https://buff.ly/DmfdowT31 Aug 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3muf6c6qiua2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3muf237lpzs2oDavid Rodriguez-Arias and colleagues offer an ethical overview in Bioethics of organ donation after medical aid in dying, breaking down the nuances stirred up by recent debate. https://buff.ly/Hai02V431 Aug 2026 13:45 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3muf237lpzs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jasonadamwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mu5l7rtx5d24In the Journal of Medical Humanities: Bracken, Lamb, Kosiba, and Klugman surveyed 228 health humanities graduates. Nearly two-thirds went into healthcare roles, and over 90% said the training strengthened them for further education. https://buff.ly/z6XgoGN28 Aug 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:esspjft5elycdl2aj2wis46u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5l7rtx5d24