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  1. The Dead Donor Rule: Can It Withstand Critical Scrutiny?F. G. Miller, R. D. Truog & D. W. Brock - 2010 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 35 (3):299-312.
    Transplantation of vital organs has been premised ethically and legally on "the dead donor rule" (DDR)—the requirement that donors are determined to be dead before these organs are procured. Nevertheless, scholars have argued cogently that donors of vital organs, including those diagnosed as "brain dead" and those declared dead according to cardiopulmonary criteria, are not in fact dead at the time that vital organs are being procured. In this article, we challenge the normative rationale for the DDR by rejecting the (...)
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    Death and legal fictions.S. K. Shah, R. D. Truog & F. G. Miller - 2011 - Journal of Medical Ethics 37 (12):719-722.
    Advances in life-saving technologies in the past few decades have challenged our traditional understandings of death. Traditionally, death was understood to occur when a person stops breathing, their heart stops beating and they are cold to the touch. Today, physicians determine death by relying on a diagnosis of ‘total brain failure’ or by waiting a short while after circulation stops. Evidence has emerged, however, that the conceptual bases for these approaches to determining death are fundamentally flawed and depart substantially from (...)
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    Decapitation and the definition of death.F. G. Miller & R. D. Truog - 2010 - Journal of Medical Ethics 36 (10):632-634.
    Although established in the law and current practice, the determination of death according to neurological criteria continues to be controversial. Some scholars have advocated return to the traditional circulatory and respiratory criteria for determining death because individuals diagnosed as ‘brain dead’ display an extensive range of integrated biological functioning with the aid of mechanical ventilation. Others have attempted to refute this stance by appealing to the analogy between decapitation and brain death. Since a decapitated animal is obviously dead, and ‘brain (...)
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  4. A Multicenter Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapeutics.D. B. White, E. K. McCreary, C. H. Chang, M. Schmidhofer, J. R. Bariola, N. N. Jonassaint, Parag A. Pathak, G. Persad, R. D. Truog, T. Sonmez & M. Utku Unver - 2022 - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 206 (4):503–506.
    Shortages of new therapeutics to treat coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have forced clinicians, public health officials, and health systems to grapple with difficult questions about how to fairly allocate potentially life-saving treatments when there are not enough for all patients in need (1). Shortages have occurred with remdesivir, tocilizumab, monoclonal antibodies, and the oral antiviral Paxlovid (2) -/- Ensuring equitable allocation is especially important in light of the disproportionate burden experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic by disadvantaged groups, including Black, Hispanic/Latino and (...)
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    ""The" ethics of evidence" and randomized controlled trials.R. D. Truog & J. H. Arnold - 1992 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 3 (1):65-67.
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    Practicing Physicians and the Role of Family Surrogate Decision Making.G. E. Hardart & R. D. Truog - 2005 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 16 (4):345-354.
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    The ethics of reality medical television.T. M. Krakower, M. Montello, C. Mitchell & R. D. Truog - 2013 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 24 (1):50-57.
    Reality medical television, an increasingly popular genre, depicts private medical moments between patients and healthcare providers. Journalists aim to educate and inform the public, while the participants in their documentaries—providers and patients—seek to heal and be healed. When journalists and healthcare providers work together at the bedside, moral problems precipitate. During the summer of 2010, ABC aired a documentary, Boston Med, featuring several Boston hospitals. We examine the ethical issues that arise when journalism and medicine intersect. We provide a framework (...)
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    Excerpts from the Ethics Consult Report: MT.C. Mitchell & R. D. Truog - 2004 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 15 (3):302-306.
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    From the Files of a Pediatric Ethics Committee.C. Mitchell & R. D. Truog - 2000 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 11 (2):112-120.
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    Amnesia Instead of Anesthesia: Not Always a Question of Consent.R. D. Truog & D. Waisel - 1994 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 5 (2):153-155.
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    Sedation Before Ventilator Withdrawal: Medical and Ethical Considerations.R. D. Truog, J. H. Arnold & M. A. Rockoff - 1991 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 2 (2):127-129.
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    Should Newborns Receive Analgesics for Pain?R. D. Truog & P. R. Hickey - 1991 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 2 (2):115-117.