Elizabeth Lanphier
@ethicselizabeth.bsky.social
Philosopher & Clinical Ethicist | she/her | peds ethics, repro ethics, TIC, narrative med, feminist philosophy | Cincinnati (it’s cool despite Ohio) | Thoughts my own unless I am re-posting yours
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Reconsidering Off-Label Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccination
This Viewpoint discusses current factors to consider when recommending off-label pediatric COVID-19 vaccination.
jamanetwork.com
Anticipating changes to the 25/26 Covid-19 vaccine regulations @sefyfe.bsky.social & I updated our previous analysis of off-label pediatric Covid-19 vaccination. It is out now in @jamapediatrics.com & accessible here.
Many things happened since we submitted this! I'll touch on a few of them 🧵
Many things happened since we submitted this! I'll touch on a few of them 🧵
“The journal’s website will remain online with all content freely available, ‘in keeping with our guiding premise that ethics inquiry is a public good,’ Audiey C. Kao, editor-in-chief of the AMA Journal of Ethics”
The @ama-assn.org will cease publication of its ethics journal at the end of this year.
AMA ethics journal shutters after 26 years
The American Medical Association will cease publication of its ethics journal at the end of this year. The AMA Journal of Ethics, an open access, peer-reviewed journal was founded in 1999 und…
retractionwatch.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“The journal’s website will remain online with all content freely available, ‘in keeping with our guiding premise that ethics inquiry is a public good,’ Audiey C. Kao, editor-in-chief of the AMA Journal of Ethics”
"Managing Competing Interests Between Appointed Surrogates and Extended Family in End-of-Life Care"
Physician, ethicist, and social worker perspectives on case requiring resolving decision-making challenges for an incapacitated young adult patient in a pediatric hospital.
Physician, ethicist, and social worker perspectives on case requiring resolving decision-making challenges for an incapacitated young adult patient in a pediatric hospital.
Managing Competing Interests Between Appointed Surrogates and Extended Family in End-of-Life Care
This Ethics Rounds article brings together perspectives from a clinical ethicist, 2 resident physicians in pediatrics, and a social worker on a case involving a terminally ill, intubated, and sedated ...
publications.aap.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"Managing Competing Interests Between Appointed Surrogates and Extended Family in End-of-Life Care"
Physician, ethicist, and social worker perspectives on case requiring resolving decision-making challenges for an incapacitated young adult patient in a pediatric hospital.
Physician, ethicist, and social worker perspectives on case requiring resolving decision-making challenges for an incapacitated young adult patient in a pediatric hospital.
He has clearly never been on a mommy blog. The discourse on them is nothing but obsession about what we’re “putting in our kids” as he says.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
He has clearly never been on a mommy blog. The discourse on them is nothing but obsession about what we’re “putting in our kids” as he says.
Being clever with Johnny Cash lyrics is against the terms of service.
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Being clever with Johnny Cash lyrics is against the terms of service.
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congrats to everyone (glares at UCSF) who helped make this happen. someone who is antivax and has actual knowledge of drug policy levers is extraordinarily dangerous
“They are focused most intensely on Covid-19 shots, but are also looking at vaccines more broadly. Prasad wants to make it more difficult for vaccine makers to tell doctors they can offer their shots together, something providers have done for decades to more efficiently protect people from disease”
How two top FDA officials are quietly upending vaccine regulations
Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg mix skepticism with new ways to define risk in pursuing sweeping changes to vaccine policy at the FDA.
www.statnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
congrats to everyone (glares at UCSF) who helped make this happen. someone who is antivax and has actual knowledge of drug policy levers is extraordinarily dangerous
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people complain about the journal of controversial ideas, but they have managed to really streamline the peer review process and i think that's awesome
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
people complain about the journal of controversial ideas, but they have managed to really streamline the peer review process and i think that's awesome
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I am interested in speaking to DC community health activists about how general internists / primary care doctors can help support their efforts. If anyone is interested in this or has ideas, I would love your comments and connections! Thank you.
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I am interested in speaking to DC community health activists about how general internists / primary care doctors can help support their efforts. If anyone is interested in this or has ideas, I would love your comments and connections! Thank you.
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I’ve heard this loud and clear from my constituents, too. They want a real bipartisan agreement to reopen the government and protect their healthcare.
I assume all of us that have been fighting to protect our constituents from soaring healthcare costs will vote against this. (2/2)
I assume all of us that have been fighting to protect our constituents from soaring healthcare costs will vote against this. (2/2)
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I’ve heard this loud and clear from my constituents, too. They want a real bipartisan agreement to reopen the government and protect their healthcare.
I assume all of us that have been fighting to protect our constituents from soaring healthcare costs will vote against this. (2/2)
I assume all of us that have been fighting to protect our constituents from soaring healthcare costs will vote against this. (2/2)
My 8 year old knows what magnets are.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
My 8 year old knows what magnets are.
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Here is my latest for @msnbc.com, on Trump's ill-advised concept of a plan for health care, which entails repealing the ACA, and redistributing private insurers' tax breaks to the people for what would essentially amount to an HSA, which is unhelpful if not wealthy. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump’s new plan for Obamacare leaves Americans to fend for themselves
We finally know what “concepts of a plan” looks like – and it’s not good.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Here is my latest for @msnbc.com, on Trump's ill-advised concept of a plan for health care, which entails repealing the ACA, and redistributing private insurers' tax breaks to the people for what would essentially amount to an HSA, which is unhelpful if not wealthy. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Dems: No Kings!!
Nancy Pelosi: now that I finally retire at the age of 275 it is time my daughter takes my spot as is the tradition.
Nancy Pelosi: now that I finally retire at the age of 275 it is time my daughter takes my spot as is the tradition.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Dems: No Kings!!
Nancy Pelosi: now that I finally retire at the age of 275 it is time my daughter takes my spot as is the tradition.
Nancy Pelosi: now that I finally retire at the age of 275 it is time my daughter takes my spot as is the tradition.
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We're at "concepts of concepts" at best
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We're at "concepts of concepts" at best
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I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
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We have had enough winning.
by Senate Democrats
by Senate Democrats
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
We have had enough winning.
by Senate Democrats
by Senate Democrats
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At this point, it’s clear that the Hamburglar, Dr Evil, and Sideshow Bob are advising Chuck Schumer.
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
At this point, it’s clear that the Hamburglar, Dr Evil, and Sideshow Bob are advising Chuck Schumer.
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Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
Literally trying to take food out of the mouths of children.
November 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Literally trying to take food out of the mouths of children.
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basic problem is none of these folks is capable of saying “i was wrong”
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
basic problem is none of these folks is capable of saying “i was wrong”
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Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores
Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026
Details and links to submit on the website:
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores
Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026
Details and links to submit on the website:
Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind - hypatia
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores This special issue focuses on feminist philosophy of mind and cognitive science. It will offer novel perspectives on long-standing questions such as t...
hypatiaphilosophy.org
June 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores
Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026
Details and links to submit on the website:
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores
Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026
Details and links to submit on the website:
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"[Models] may be engineered to reduce bias more readily than human reviewers can control and disclose their own biases"
Citation needed?
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Citation needed?
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Artificial Intelligence in Peer Review
Like David Foster Wallace’s tale of 2 fish that don’t notice the water they’re swimming in because it’s all around them,1 the medical community has at times taken for granted peer review and its centr...
jamanetwork.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"[Models] may be engineered to reduce bias more readily than human reviewers can control and disclose their own biases"
Citation needed?
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Citation needed?
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Ugh. More “not if, but how” uptake of AI. Here at the highest levels of academic medicine publishing.
"[I]t will be critical to maintain a human in the loop even as we seek to incorporate the strengths of #AI-based review in our editorial process."
Read this Editorial from the editors and staff of JAMA and the JAMA Network journals.
ja.ma/4oXjl3H
Read this Editorial from the editors and staff of JAMA and the JAMA Network journals.
ja.ma/4oXjl3H
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Ugh. More “not if, but how” uptake of AI. Here at the highest levels of academic medicine publishing.