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@JournalofEthics) features an interview with Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and public health and director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado in Denver. Dr. Wynia outlined the tough decisions administrators and physicians face when confronted with rapidly dwindling resources.
Dr. Wynia also serves on the Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Last year, he co-wrote a National Academy of Medicine discussion paper on COVID-19 crisis standards of care.
No blame or shame
No blame or shame
State officials often don’t want to take responsibility for activating crisis standards of care because doing so “implies that their planning to avoid crisis standards of care didn t work,” Dr. Wynia said.
Colorado’s long-term care facility administrators are concerned about the alarming number of their staff who are refusing the coronavirus vaccine, reigniting a debate over whether workers can be required to
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Aspen Valley Hospital clinical pharmacist Kelly Atkinson organizes the empty vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the command unit trailer set up next to the vaccination tent in the Benedict Music Tent parking lot in Aspen, Colo., Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. To keep track of the empty vials, the pharmacists labeled them with individual numbers. Before the vaccine is diluted, the unused vial of vaccine looks identical to the vials after the doses have been taken out. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times via AP)
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CAROL MCKINLEY
Special to Colorado Politics Jan 18, 2021
Manhattan-based physician died on Friday, according to New York Times obit
As of Thursday, there was no word as to the cause of death
Bornstein died at his home in Scarsdale, New York. No foul play is suspected
Bornstein is survived by his wife, Melissa; a daughter, and four sons
In 2015, Bornstein wrote letter attesting to Donald Trump s good health
Trump would be healthiest individual ever elected to presidency, he claimed
Bornstein later said that he was coerced into writing the 2015 letter
In 2018, Bornstein said that Trump sent his bodyguard to raid office for records
Bornstein revealed Trump was prescribed the anti-baldness drug Propecia