AARON KHERIATY, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, UCI School of Medicine
Director, Medical Ethics Program, UCI Health
SELECTED WRITINGS
See links above for additional articles, essays, interviews, lectures, debates, and panel discussions.
UNIVERSITY VACCINE MANDATES VIOLATE MEDICAL ETHICS
WALL STREET JOURNAL
14 June 2021
Colleges’ vaccine mandates ignore the huge number of students who have already recovered from Covid infection, and who thus possess natural immunity, which studies have suggested is more robust and durable than vaccine immunity. While vaccinating Covid-recovered patients might produce an antibody uptick, there is no epidemiological evidence that this improves relevant clinical outcomes like
reinfection or transmissibility.
THE IMPOSSIBLE ETHICS OF PANDEMIC TRIAGE
THE NEW ATLANTIS
April 3, 2020
Is there a formula for deciding which patients doctors try to save?
CARD-CARRYING PRECADAVERS
FIRST THINGS
June 2018
"It has been almost twenty years since I dissected a dead human body. It still seems strange: My first encounter with a human body to learn the art of healing was an encounter with a corpse. What is more, I took this body to pieces. In any other context, this act would have been a felony..."
FIRST, TAKE NO STAND
THE NEW ATLANTIS
Summer 2019
On assisted suicide, the medical profession ducks behind “neutrality.”
THE DANGEROUSLY CONTAGIOUS EFFECT OF ASSISTED-SUICIDE LAWS
THE WASHINGTON POST
November 2015
"The debate over doctor-assisted suicide is often framed as an issue of personal autonomy and privacy. But presenting the issue in this way ignores the wider social consequences. What if it turns out that the individuals who make this choice in fact are influencing the actions of those who follow?"
WHY ARE DOCTORS AFRAID OF THE WORD “DEATH”?
THE WASHINGTON POST
October 2015
"It’s not comfortable to watch a loved one die. But those who have died well show us that in the midst of suffering and decline we can still find courage, hope and even beauty. True compassion and mercy involve walking this difficult journey with our patients and with our loved ones — a journey in which there simply are no shortcuts."
DYING OF DESPAIR
FIRST THINGS
August/September 2017
"On November 4, 2014, sixteen-year-old Cameron Lee, a popular, athletic, straight-A student at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, leapt in front of a commuter train. His suicide note provided no clear reason for his act; there were no apparent signs of mental illness, and he was not a bullied misfit."
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