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John Lantos

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Teacher, writer, pediatrician, bioethicist - available to consult in any of those domains - johnlantos.com

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Hoping for ominous threats, bitter arguments, and formal complaints about your behavior? Want to feel like a leper? Try medical whistleblowing. Carl Elliott shows how whistleblowing lands you in a special kind of hell. johnlantos.com/post/whistlebl…

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Echoes of Faulkner everywhere. “This book is a conversation with ghosts.” And again, “Whistleblowers need a story that explains what has happened and does not leave them feeling broken and meaningless. The problem is finding that story.” Faulkner was on a similar quest.

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Carl Elliott’s book is essential reading for anybody concerned about biomedical research and the protection of people who participate in research. Does innovation require an occasional human sacrifice? Do researchers need the courage to fail? johnlantos.com/post/human-sac…

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johnlantos.com/post/survival-…. The baby had callosal agenesis, cortical dysgyria, dysplastic basal ganglia, cleft lip and palate, no eyeballs. A doctor said he is unlikely to derive any benefit from continued life sustaining treatment." The judge agreed.

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Since 2017, gender dysphoria (GD) diagnoses tripled, the age at diagnosis fell, and women with the diagnosis now outnumber men. These trends raise many questions. Good research is crucial, but most research on GD simply sucks.

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AI and genomics both promise to revolutionize the practice of medicine. Both are being developed in ways that cannibalize existing data to find predictive patterns - one in our language, the other in our DNA. I examine some of the implications.

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A Netflix film about IVF gets some things right, makes up other things, and ignores controversies about eugenics, ableism, and research oversight. Such fictionalizations explain why this technology has not been a victim of the culture wars. johnlantos.com/post/ivf-cultu…

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What if your genome predicted that you'd become a murderer. And what if you were furious at your ex-wife's new lover, and your teenage daughter's cheating boyfriend. is predictive genomics an alibi? johnlantos.com/post/can-bioet…

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the film Emilia Perez raises questions that are relevant to gender medicine today - when people seek transition, do they want a different gender? Or a different life? johnlantos.com/post/emilia-pe…