Sean Philpott – Weighty Hiring Decisions

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A hospital in Texas recently made the national news when it announced that it would no longer hire obese workers. According to the new employment policy at the Citizens Medical Center in Victoria, Texas, all new employees — be they physicians, nurses, orderlies or janitors — must have a body mass index (BMI) of less than 35.

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Sean Philpott – Caring for the Invisible Wounds of War

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Earlier this month, the world reacted in horror to reports that a large number of Afghan civilians — primarily women and children — were killed by an American soldier. According to the US Army, Staff Sergeant Robert Bales twice left his outpost in a remote part of southern Afghanistan and shot or stabbed 23 innocent persons, 17 of whom died, in a series of nighttime ambushes. Sergeant Bales has since been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of assault and attempted murder, for which he will likely face the death penalty.

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Sean Phipott – A Cartoonist’s Take on Reproductive Rights

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One of my favorite comic strips — Doonesbury — disappeared from many newspapers this week. This is because the story being presented in the venerable 41-year-old strip deals with a rather controversial and polarizing topic: abortion.

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Sean Philpott – How to Die in New York

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Tonight (weather permitting), my colleagues and I from the Bioethics Program of Union Graduate College are hosting a special event: a screening and discussion of the award-winning but controversial film “How to Die in Oregon.”

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Sean Philpott – A Good Drug is Hard to Find

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America has a serious drug problem, but it’s not the problem that you might suspect. The problem isn’t rampant drug abuse among teenagers or the ongoing and bloody war with Mexican drug cartels. Rather, the problem we face is a critical shortage of critical medicines like antibiotics, anesthetics and cancer-fighting drugs. read more

Sean Philpott – The Perils of Paula Deen

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On Monday night, some good friends came to my house for dinner. Our dessert consisted of delicious store-bought chocolate pound cake, from the Paula Deen collection of baked goods.

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