Lachlan Forrow

Lachlan Forrow, MD

Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Part-time, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Lachlan Forrow is a general internist and Director of Ethics and Palliative Care Programs at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Part-time at Harvard Medical School; and President of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship.

Dr. Forrow serves as a Faculty Associate at the Harvard University Program in Ethics and the Professions and is Director of the Ethics Support Service and chair of The Ethics Advisory Committee at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has served as a member of the Harvard Medical School Human Studies Committee, chaired the Human Studies Committee of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and, since 2000, has served as a member of the Institutional Review Board of the Harvard Cancer Center. Dr. Forrow also served as co-chair of the Expert Panel on End-of-Life Care that released the report Patient-Centered Care and Human Mortality in 2011.

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Moving from moral judgment to ethical reasoning.
Authors: Authors: Forrow L.
J Clin Ethics
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Family decision making for end-of-life treatment: the SUPPORT nurse narratives. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments.
Authors: Authors: Hiltunen EF, Medich C, Chase S, Peterson L, Forrow L.
J Clin Ethics
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Medicine and nuclear war: from Hiroshima to mutual assured destruction to abolition 2000.
Authors: Authors: Forrow L, Sidel VW.
JAMA
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Ideals in action: the U.S. Schweitzer Fellows Programs.
Authors: Authors: Forrow L, Wolf ML.
Acad Med
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Accidental nuclear war--a post-cold war assessment.
Authors: Authors: Forrow L, Blair BG, Helfand I, Lewis G, Postol T, Sidel V, Levy BS, Abrams H, Cassel C.
N Engl J Med
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Uncertainty in xenotransplantation: individual benefit versus collective risk.
Authors: Authors: Bach FH, Fishman JA, Daniels N, Proimos J, Anderson B, Carpenter CB, Forrow L, Robson SC, Fineberg HV.
Nat Med
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A new educational approach for supporting the professional development of third-year medical students.
Authors: Authors: Branch WT, Pels RJ, Harper G, Calkins D, Forrow L, Mandell F, Maynard E, Peterson L, Arky RA, Robb-Nicholson C.
J Gen Intern Med
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Evaluating cholesterol screening. The importance of controlling for regression to the mean.
Authors: Authors: Forrow L, Calkins DR, Allshouse K, Horowitz G, Delbanco TL.
Arch Intern Med
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The green eggs and ham phenomena.
Authors: Authors: Forrow L.
Hastings Cent Rep
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Empirical research in medical ethics: an introduction.
Authors: Authors: Arnold RM, Forrow L.
Theor Med
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