A bioethicist who had thyroid cancer as a child describes his recent positive experience as an adult patient with his surgeon and how his surgeon's bioethics training helped the patient-physician relationship.
Dr Aysha Akhtar joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Mikalah Singer, “With What Should We Replace Nonhuman Animals in Biomedical Research Protocols?”
Historically, most discussions about nonhuman animal experimentation consider what has become known as the 3 R’s: refinement, reduction, and replacement.
AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(9):E701-708. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2024.701.