medical ethics

  • Instead Of Healing He Unleashed Horror! How A Racist Doctor Got Away With Murder

    A man once revered as a trailblazer in cancer research, Dr. Cornelius Packard “Dusty” Rhoads, held a secret so dark it still casts a shadow over American medical history. In 1931, Rhoads — a celebrated pathologist and future director of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — was sent to Puerto Rico under the auspices of…

  • Expanding Underground Human Organ Trade In Africa Raises Concern

    Legal professionals and international watchdogs are sounding the alarm over a growing illegal organ trafficking industry in Africa. Human rights advocates are warning that impoverished individuals are being targeted and exploited to fuel a multi-billion-dollar underground market. According to a 2018 investigation by Deutsche Welle (DW), Nigerian human rights lawyer Frank Tietie described the trade…

  • The Shocking Case of the Doctor Who Secretly Injected His Lover With HIV And Was Brought Down By Science

    By all accounts, Dr. Richard J. Schmidt was a trusted gastroenterologist. Respected. Experienced. But what happened in the sleepy town of Lafayette, Louisiana in the 1990s would turn him into the center of one of the most shocking and innovative criminal trials in American history. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill courtroom drama. No, the tale of…

  • Henrietta Lacks’ Cells Changed Science Forever—But Did She Get Justice?

    In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year-old Black woman from Virginia, unknowingly became one of the most important figures in modern medicine. While undergoing treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital, a sample of her cancerous cells was taken without her knowledge or consent. Unlike previous samples that quickly perished, Lacks’ cells, now known as…

  • Canadian Doctor Files Lawsuit Over Forced Delivery of His Dying Daughter’s Baby

    Dr. Amos Akinbiyi, a Nigerian-born obstetrician-gynecologist based in Canada, last month filed a lawsuit against the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA), alleging breach of contract, intimidation, conspiracy, and defamation. The case stems from a 2017 incident in which he was reportedly compelled to perform an emergency delivery on his own daughter while she was in critical…