Lori Bruce

Integrates trauma informed-principles within the ethics consultation process, shifting the focus from "what is wrong with a patient toward" what happened in the patients life that lead to current circumstances.

Suggests that unconsented intimate exams (UIEs) are unlikely to be rare, isolated incidents. 

Discusses that due to COVID-19’s strain on health systems across the globe, triage protocols determine how to allocate scarce medical resources with the worthy goal of maximising the number of lives saved. Mentions due to racial biases and long-standing health inequities, the common method of ranking patients based on impersonal numeric representations of their morbidity is associated with disproportionately pronounced racial disparities.

Elaborates on legislative strategies for reducing infant abandonment and neonaticide developed in response to a series of sensational cases that occurred in Texas in 1999. Implies the media coverage of the incidence of the crime was increasing, and Texas legislators responded with a law permitting parents to anonymously surrender their newborn at designated locations such as hospitals.