Andrew Courtwright
Biographic Data
| ID | 8307123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Courtwright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Courtwright |
| SIGNATURE | COURTWRIGHT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9511-5975 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Should Antimicrobial Resistance Limit Access to an Organ Transplant
Burkholderia cenocepacia (B cenocepacia) is a gram-negative bacteria associated with significant morbidity and mortality following lung transplantation. Most US transplant programs consider B cenocepacia colonization to be an absolute contraindication to transplantation. This article argues that, if clinicians have good clinical reasons to expect poor outcomes for patients with B cenocepacia, then offering transplantation anyway is an abrogation …
After the DNR
Some health care organizations allow physicians to withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation from a patient, despite patient or surrogate requests that it be provided, when they believe it will be more harmful than beneficial. Such cases usually involve patients with terminal diagnoses whose medical teams argue that aggressive treatments are medically inappropriate or likely to be harmful. Although there is state‐to‐state variability and a considera…
What We Talk about When We Talk about Performance Enhancement
Who Is “Too Sick to Benefit”
Intensive care units provide focused, aggressive medical intervention to critically ill patients. Physicians responsible for ICU triage must decide which patients are sick enough to require this level of care and which can be managed on the general wards. While some patients are too well for the ICU, intensivists increasingly rely on another category, “too sick to benefit,” when denying ICU admission, even if beds are readily available. Recent st…
Tuberculosis and Stigmatization
The institutional and community norms that lead to the stigmatization of tuberculosis (TB) are thought to hinder TB control. We performed a systematic review of the literature on TB stigma to identify the causes and evaluate the impact of stigma on TB diagnosis and treatment. Several themes emerged: fear of infection is the most common cause of TB stigma; TB stigma has serious socioeconomic consequences, particularly for women; qualitative approa…
Is Restricting Access to Assisted Reproductive Technology an Infringement of Reproductive Rights
An explanation of the bases for patients' right to assisted reproductive technologies both in the professional obligations of physicians and in the assumed right of individuals to reproduce and an explanation of circumstances under which physicians might be justified in restricting those rights. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
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Is Restricting Access to Assisted Reproductive Technology an Infringement of Reproductive Rights
An explanation of the bases for patients' right to assisted reproductive technologies both in the professional obligations of physicians and in the assumed right of individuals to reproduce and an explanation of circumstances under which physicians might be justified in restricting those rights. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Tuberculosis and Stigmatization
The institutional and community norms that lead to the stigmatization of tuberculosis (TB) are thought to hinder TB control. We performed a systematic review of the literature on TB stigma to identify the causes and evaluate the impact of stigma on TB diagnosis and treatment. Several themes emerged: fear of infection is the most common cause of TB stigma; TB stigma has serious socioeconomic consequences, particularly for women; qualitative approa…
Who Is “Too Sick to Benefit”
Intensive care units provide focused, aggressive medical intervention to critically ill patients. Physicians responsible for ICU triage must decide which patients are sick enough to require this level of care and which can be managed on the general wards. While some patients are too well for the ICU, intensivists increasingly rely on another category, “too sick to benefit,” when denying ICU admission, even if beds are readily available. Recent st…
What We Talk about When We Talk about Performance Enhancement
After the DNR
Some health care organizations allow physicians to withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation from a patient, despite patient or surrogate requests that it be provided, when they believe it will be more harmful than beneficial. Such cases usually involve patients with terminal diagnoses whose medical teams argue that aggressive treatments are medically inappropriate or likely to be harmful. Although there is state‐to‐state variability and a considera…
Should Antimicrobial Resistance Limit Access to an Organ Transplant
Burkholderia cenocepacia (B cenocepacia) is a gram-negative bacteria associated with significant morbidity and mortality following lung transplantation. Most US transplant programs consider B cenocepacia colonization to be an absolute contraindication to transplantation. This article argues that, if clinicians have good clinical reasons to expect poor outcomes for patients with B cenocepacia, then offering transplantation anyway is an abrogation …
Medicine (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Intensive care medicine (2 works) · Medical emergency (2 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Abortion (1 works)