Tyler Tate
Biographic Data
| ID | 4485534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tyler Tate |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tyler |
| FAMILY NAME | Tate |
| SIGNATURE | TATE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon Health & Science University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1204-5586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Objective Suffering: What is it? What Could it be
There is an ongoing debate in bioethics regarding the nature of suffering. This conversation revolves around the following question: What kind of thing, exactly, is suffering? Specifically, is suffering a subjective phenomenon—intrinsically linked to personhood, personal values, feelings, and lived experience—or an objective affair, amenable to impersonal criteria and existing as an independent feature of the natural world? Notably, the implicati…
Why Pediatric Ethics Needs a Theory of Goodness
We begin this commentary with a brief analysis of "Making Medical Decisions for Children with Profound Cognitive Disabilities: Pluralism and the Best Interest Standard," by Pierce Randall, and "A Life Worth Sustaining? Bestowed Worth and Pediatric Care," by Daniel T. Kim and Xiang Yu, in the same issue of the Hastings Center Report. These two articles examine decision-making for children with profound cognitive disabilities and critique the relat…
Love Your Patient as Yourself: On Reviving the Broken Heart of American Medical Ethics
This article presents a radical claim: American medical ethics is broken, and it needs love to be healed. Due to a unique set of cultural and economic pressures, American medical ethics has adopted a mechanistic mode of ethical reasoning epitomized by the doctrine of principlism. This mode of reasoning divorces clinicians from both their patients and themselves. This results in clinicians who can ace ethics questions on multiple‐choice tests but …
Tyler Tate replies
The author responds to a letter by D. Brendan Johnson in the July‐August 2023 issue of the Hastings Center Report concerning his and Joseph Clair's article “Love Your Patient as Yourself: On Reviving the Broken Heart of American Medical Ethics.”
Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Pediatric Suffering
This book explores the complex metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical issues surrounding childhood suffering.
Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Pediatric Suffering
When Following the Rules Feels Wrong
The Covid‐19 pandemic has created a clinical environment in which health care practitioners are experiencing moral distress in numerous and novel ways. In this narrative reflection, a pediatric palliative care physician explores how his hospital's strict visitation policy set the stage for moral distress when, in the early months of the pandemic, it prevented two parents from being together at the bedside of their dying child
Philosophical investigations into the essence of pediatric suffering
What we talk about when we talk about pediatric suffering
Your Father's a Fighter; Your Daughter's a Vegetable: A Critical Analysis of the Use of Metaphor in Clinical Practice
There are two widespread beliefs about the use of metaphors in clinical medicine. The first is that military metaphors are harmful to patients and should be discouraged in medical practice. The second is that the metaphors of clinical practice can be judged by and standardized in reference to neutral criteria. In this article, I evaluate both these beliefs, exposing their shared flawed logic. This logic underwrites the false empiricist assumption…
Empathetic Practice: The Struggle and Virtue of Empathizing with a Patient's Suffering
In this article, our analysis of empathy in the clinical context hinges on the complexities of patients who are acutely suffering. Using a case concerning a heart transplant patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Alex, and his nurse, Joe, we investigate how empathy’s phenomenological nebulousness can generate doubts about its virtue. Even when asking, “How are you, Alex?” Joe hates the question; it seems empty, silly. Cases like this show both…
The Clue
As I stood outside of Carlos's room, I felt caught on the horns of a dilemma. It seemed impossible to truly “be there” for Carlos without sacrificing my other intern duties. This tension pervaded much of my residency training, as I often found myself spending more time completing chart notes, answering pages, and giving sign out than I did at the bedside with my patients. I knew I had a duty to “do my job”—I could not let my team down. But what a…
How Should Clinicians Treat Patients Who Might Be Undocumented
her residency program, has now worked as a partner in a private primary care practice for a year. She shares the practice with an older physician who is considering retirement, taking on fewer responsibilities, and reducing his hours. The practice is part of a large hospital network and serves a diverse community in a large city. Dr. Connelly loves the prospect of owning the practice but is unsure whether she wants to assume sole responsibility f…
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How Should Clinicians Treat Patients Who Might Be Undocumented
her residency program, has now worked as a partner in a private primary care practice for a year. She shares the practice with an older physician who is considering retirement, taking on fewer responsibilities, and reducing his hours. The practice is part of a large hospital network and serves a diverse community in a large city. Dr. Connelly loves the prospect of owning the practice but is unsure whether she wants to assume sole responsibility f…
The Clue
As I stood outside of Carlos's room, I felt caught on the horns of a dilemma. It seemed impossible to truly “be there” for Carlos without sacrificing my other intern duties. This tension pervaded much of my residency training, as I often found myself spending more time completing chart notes, answering pages, and giving sign out than I did at the bedside with my patients. I knew I had a duty to “do my job”—I could not let my team down. But what a…
Empathetic Practice: The Struggle and Virtue of Empathizing with a Patient's Suffering
In this article, our analysis of empathy in the clinical context hinges on the complexities of patients who are acutely suffering. Using a case concerning a heart transplant patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Alex, and his nurse, Joe, we investigate how empathy’s phenomenological nebulousness can generate doubts about its virtue. Even when asking, “How are you, Alex?” Joe hates the question; it seems empty, silly. Cases like this show both…
Philosophical investigations into the essence of pediatric suffering
What we talk about when we talk about pediatric suffering
Your Father's a Fighter; Your Daughter's a Vegetable: A Critical Analysis of the Use of Metaphor in Clinical Practice
There are two widespread beliefs about the use of metaphors in clinical medicine. The first is that military metaphors are harmful to patients and should be discouraged in medical practice. The second is that the metaphors of clinical practice can be judged by and standardized in reference to neutral criteria. In this article, I evaluate both these beliefs, exposing their shared flawed logic. This logic underwrites the false empiricist assumption…
When Following the Rules Feels Wrong
The Covid‐19 pandemic has created a clinical environment in which health care practitioners are experiencing moral distress in numerous and novel ways. In this narrative reflection, a pediatric palliative care physician explores how his hospital's strict visitation policy set the stage for moral distress when, in the early months of the pandemic, it prevented two parents from being together at the bedside of their dying child
Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Pediatric Suffering
This book explores the complex metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical issues surrounding childhood suffering.
Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Pediatric Suffering
Love Your Patient as Yourself: On Reviving the Broken Heart of American Medical Ethics
This article presents a radical claim: American medical ethics is broken, and it needs love to be healed. Due to a unique set of cultural and economic pressures, American medical ethics has adopted a mechanistic mode of ethical reasoning epitomized by the doctrine of principlism. This mode of reasoning divorces clinicians from both their patients and themselves. This results in clinicians who can ace ethics questions on multiple‐choice tests but …
Tyler Tate replies
The author responds to a letter by D. Brendan Johnson in the July‐August 2023 issue of the Hastings Center Report concerning his and Joseph Clair's article “Love Your Patient as Yourself: On Reviving the Broken Heart of American Medical Ethics.”
Objective Suffering: What is it? What Could it be
There is an ongoing debate in bioethics regarding the nature of suffering. This conversation revolves around the following question: What kind of thing, exactly, is suffering? Specifically, is suffering a subjective phenomenon—intrinsically linked to personhood, personal values, feelings, and lived experience—or an objective affair, amenable to impersonal criteria and existing as an independent feature of the natural world? Notably, the implicati…
Why Pediatric Ethics Needs a Theory of Goodness
We begin this commentary with a brief analysis of "Making Medical Decisions for Children with Profound Cognitive Disabilities: Pluralism and the Best Interest Standard," by Pierce Randall, and "A Life Worth Sustaining? Bestowed Worth and Pediatric Care," by Daniel T. Kim and Xiang Yu, in the same issue of the Hastings Center Report. These two articles examine decision-making for children with profound cognitive disabilities and critique the relat…
Psychology (9 works) · Ethics in medical practice (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (3 works)