The Creative Journal of Contemporary Bioethics
Hannah Norem, Wake Forest University, J.D./M.Div Dual Degree Candidate '23 Preface: Chaplaincy and End-of-Life Decision-Making As a hospital chaplain, you have the privilege of experiencing the best and worst parts of patients’ lives.[1] You bear witness to the beginnings of life that take place in a hospital, like births and successful organ transplants.[2] However, you also …
Joseph Johnson, Wake Forest University School of Law J.D. Candidate '23 10 years old Dear Diary, I finally had my birthday party today! I have been waiting FOREVER for it. It feels like I have been 9 for two years at LEAST! But I am finally 10! Double digits! It was so much fun and …
Charlotte Robinson, Wake Forest University School of Law JD '22 The room feels darker than most. It is cold and uninviting. For someone who works in a hospital, you’d think I would be used to this environment. I should have adapted to it. After all, no one has ever described a hospital as sunny and …
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Christian Schweitzer, Wake Forest University School of Law J.D. Candidate '23 Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? *** *Rinnnngggggg* “Alright, time’s up. Put your name on your exam and bring it to the front of the room please. Remember to read …
Madison Boyer, Wake Forest University School of Law J.D. Candidate '23 Department of Health and Human Services – Project Proposal & Request for Funding Working Name: Project Talos I. Proposal Summary The Project Talos team has collaborated for six years to develop an artificially intelligent physician, or “AIP”. The AIP has the capacity to diagnose …
By Austin Coates, WFU JD Candidate '22 About mid-day on a Tuesday, Mera sat on a bench, weary and tired, yet relieved. She’d been up late the night before, studying for her computer science final exam into the morning hours. A senior in college now, it was the last final exam she would take as …
by Darrien Jones, WFU JD Candidate '22 I. BLACK BOY Black Boy has grown up in Over The Rhine, a small stretch of a booming city, Cincinnati. Over the Rhine, or as people call it now, “OTR,” is the “place to be”, the crowd is the youngest it has ever been, the restaurants that now …
by Aaron Johnston, WFU JD Candidate '21 When I was just starting to move out of the “weed-out” engineering college courses—calculus, physics, circuits, and chemistry—and into the core tenets of bioengineering, one conversation with my professor has always stuck out in my mind. I had to write a final paper in the form of a …
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by Kristen Kovach, WFU JD Candidate '21 Michael opened his email on a dreary Tuesday morning. Casually scrolling through the spam messages between sips of coffee, his eyes paused on one message sent to him in the early hours of the morning. “I think your brother is dead,” the subject line read. Michael froze. His …
By Oluwatemilorun Adenipekun, WFU S.J.D. Candidate ’21 COVID-19 is a serious global challenge, but it is also a wake-up call for the revitalization of universal human rights principles. Governments should ensure that response measures to this novel virus do not target or discriminate against any groups, and that responses are inclusive of and respect the …
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