Selected Bibliography
Robert M. Sade, M.D.

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Mack MJ, Sade RM, for the American Association for Thoracic Surgery Ethics Committee and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Standards and Ethics Committee. Relations Between Cardiothoracic Surgeons and Industry. Ann Thorac Surg 2009 May;87(5):1334-6  View PDF

Cerfolio RJ, Jacobs, JP, Sade RM. The ethics of transparency: publication of cardiothoracic surgical outcomes in the lay press. Ann Thorac Surg 2009;679-686

D’Amico TA, Krasna MJ, Sade RM.  No heroic measures—how soon is too soon to stop? Ann Thorac Surg 2009;87:11-18  View PDF

Sade RM. Foundational ethics of the health care system: the moral and practical superiority of free market reforms. J Med Philos 2008;33(4): 33(5):461-97

Dresler C, Cherry M, Sade RM. A Clash of Rights: Should smoking tobacco products in public places be legally banned? Ann Thorac Surg 2008;86:699-707 View PDF

Sade RM and American Association for Thoracic Surgery Ethics Committee and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Standards and Ethics Committee. Broadcast of surgical procedures as a teaching instrument in cardiothoracic surgery. Ann Thorac Surgery 2008;86:357-361  View PDF

Bostick A, Sade R, Levine MA, Stewart DM.  Placebo use in clinical practice. J Clin Ethics 2008 (Spring);19(1):58-61

Sade RM. Religions and cultures of East and West: perspectives on bioethics. J Law Med Ethics. 2008, (Spring);36(1):7-9

Bostick A, Levine MA, Sade RM.  Ethical obligations of physicians participating in public health quarantine and isolation measures. Public Health Reports 2008 (Jan-Feb);123(1):3-8

Black L, Sade RM. Lethal injection and physicians: state law vs medical ethics. JAMA  2007;298(23):2779-2781

Spillman MA, Sade RM. Clinical trials of xenotransplantation: waiver of the right to withdraw from a clinical trial should be required.  J Law Med Ethics. 2007 Summer;35(2):265-72.

Sade RM. Ethical foundations of health care system reform. Ann Thorac Surg 2007;84:1429-1431  View PDF

Himmelstein D, Goodman J, Sade RM. Our health care system at the crossroads: single payer or market reform? Ann Thorac Surg 2007;84:1435-1446 View PDF

Iserson KV, Cerfolio RJ, Sade RM.  Politely refuse the pen and note pad: gifts from industry to physicians harm patients. Ann Thorac Surg 2007;84(4);1077-1084 View PDF

Oberheu K, Jones J, Sade RM. A surgeon operates on his son: wisdom or hubris? Ann Thorac Surg 2007;84:723-728  View PDF

Sade RM. Reflections on emerging technologies at the centennial of organ transplantation. J Law Med & Ethics 2007;35(2):235-237

Sade RM. On moralizing and hidden agendas. Am J Bioethics. 2007:7(9):42-43

Sade RM. What’s right (and wrong) with racially stratified research and therapies. J Nat Med Assoc 2007;99(6):693-696  View PDF

Sade RM. Health care disparities in racial and ethnic minority populations. J SC Med Assoc  2007;103:16-17  View PDF

Bostick NA, Benjamin R, McMahon J, Sade RM.  Withholding information from patients: rethinking the propriety of “therapeutic privilege”. J Clin Ethics 2006;17(4):302-306

Morreim EH, Mack M, Sade RM. Is surgical innovation too dangerous to remain unregulated? 2006 Dec;82:1957-1965.  View PDF

Sade RM. Reports of Clinical Trials: Ethical Aspects. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132(2):245-6  View PDF

Sade RM. The Primary Obligation of Physicians Should Be To Their Patients, Not To Society. J So Carolina Med Assoc 2006;102(3):81-83  View PDF

Sade RM. "Surgical Research or Comic Opera" Redux. Ann Thorac Surg. 2006Oct:82(4):1173-4  View PDF

Block MI, Khitin LM, Sade RM. Ethical Process in Human Research Published in Thoracic Surgery Journals. Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82(I):6-11  View PDF

Sade RM. Transplantation at 100 years: Alexis Carrel, 1905. Ann Thoracic Surg 2005;80(6):2415-18  View PDF

McCarthy P, Lamm R, Sade RM. Medical Ethics Collides With Public Policy: LVAD for a Patient With Leukemia. Ann Thorac Surg 2005;80(3) 793-798  View PDF

Marvroudis C, Mavroudis CD, Naunheim K, Sade RM. Should Surgical Errors Always Be Disclosed to the Patient? Ann Thorac Surg 2005;80(2):399-408   View PDF

Nallamothu B, Eagle K, Ferris V, Sade RM. Should Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Be Regionalized? Ann Thorac Surg. 2005; (Nov);80(5):1572-81  View PDF

Taub S, Morin K, Spillman M, Sade RM. Managing Familial Risk in Genetic Testing. Genetic Testing. 2004;8(3):356-59  View PDF

Dickey J, Ungerleider RM, Coselli JS, Conklin LD, Sade RM. The Surgeon's Work in Transition: Should Surgeons Spend More Time Outside the Hospital? Ann Thorac Surg 2004;77:1145-51  View PDF

Watson DC, Robicsek F, Sade RM. Are Thoracic Surgeons Ethically Obligated to Serve as Expert Witnesses for the Plaintiff? Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:1137-41  View PDF

Kouchoukos NT, Cohn LH, Sade RM. Are Surgeons Ethically Obligated to Refer Patients to Other Surgeons Who Achieve Better Results? Ann Thorac Surg 2004; 77:757-60  View PDF

McKneally MF, Sade RM. The Prisoner Dilemma: Should Convicted Felons Have The Same Access to Heart Transplantation as Ordinary Citizens? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;125(3):451-3  View PDF

Sade RM. Publication of Unethical Research Studies: The Importance of Informed Consent. Ann Thorac Surg 2003;75:325-328  View PDF

Sade RM. Why Illegal Aliens Get a Place in Line: Duke Case Involved a Serious Medical Error, Not a Transplant Policy Violation. Modern Healthcare 2003;(March 31):16  View PDF

Taub S, Maixner A, Morin K, Sade RM. Cadaveric Organ Donation: Encouraging The Study of Motivation. Transplantation 2003;76:748-51  View PDF

Sade RM, Profits and Professionalism. J Thoracic Cardiovascular Surg 2002;123(3):403-5  View PDF

Sade RM. Medicine and Managed Care, Morals and Markets. In Bondeson WB and Jones JW, ed., The Ethics of Managed Care: Professional Integrity and Patient Rights. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2002;55-74  View PDF

Sade RM, Kay N, Pitzer S, Drake P, Baliga P. Haines S. Increasing Organ Donation: A Successful New Concept. Transplantation 2002;74:1142-46  View PDF

Sade RM. Research on Stored Biological Samples is Still Research Arch Int Med 2002;162(13):1439-40  View PDF

Gill M, Sade RM, Payment for Kidneys: The Case for Repealing Prohibition. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 2002;12(1):17-46  View PDF

Sade RM, McKneally M. Responsibilities of Investigators. Ann Thorac Surg 2002;73:1364-5  View PDF

Sade RM, Kay N, Pitzer S, Drake P, Baliga P, Haines S, Increasing Organ Donation: A Successful New Concept. Transplantation 2002;74:1142-46  View PDF

Lipman JA, Sade RM, Glotzbach AL, Lancaster CJ, Marshall MF. The Incremental Value of Internet Based Instruction: A Prospective Randomized Study. Academy of Medicine 2001;76(10):72-6  View PDF

Sade RM, Morin K. Principles of Medical Ethics: The Proposed Revision of 2001 J So Carolina Med Assoc 2001;97(2):72-5   View PDF

Arnold J, Sade, RM. Treating Pain: New Guidelines for Using Controlled Substances. J So Carolina Med Assoc 2000;96(3):105-10   View PDF

Joffs C, Sade RM. Palliation, Correction, or Repair? Ann Thorac Surg 2000;69:S369-72   View PDF

Sade RM, Williams T, Haney C, Perlman D, Stroud M. The Ethics Gap in Surgery. Ann Thorac Surg 2000;69(2):326-29   View PDF

Sade RM. Cadaveric Organ Donation: Rethinking Donor Motivation. Arch Int Med 1999;159:438-442  View PDF

Sade RM. Transplantation, the Organ Gap, and Race. J So Carolina Med Assoc 1999;95(3):112-115   View PDF

Sade RM. Enhancement Technology, Ethics, and Public Policy.  J So Carolina Med Assoc 1998;94(9):411-415   View PDF

Sade RM. Gene Therapy: Ethical and Social Issues.  J So Carolina Med Assoc 1998;94(9):406-410   View PDF

Sade RM. The Moral Foundations of Health Services Reform: A Critique of H.T. Engelhardt, Jr. Reason Papers, No. 22, Fall 1997;85-95   View PDF

Sade, RM.  Doctors, Death and the Lesson Michael Taught (editorial) The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC, June 22, 1997, A21  

Sade, RM. Emotional Reactions Should Not Put an End to Cloning Research (editorial) The State, Columbia, SC, April 15, 1997, A11   View PDF

Sade, RM. Marshall MF.  Legistrothanatry: A New Specialty for Assisting in Death. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 1996;39(3):222-4.    View PDF

Sade, RM. Issues of Social Policy and Ethics in Gene Technology. Meth Findings Exper Clin Pharmacol 1994;16(7): 477-89   View PDF

Sade RM. A Theory of Health and Disease: The Objectivist-Subjectivist Dichotomy. J Med Philosophy 1995;20(5):513-25267    View PDF

Sade RM, Marshall MF, Roberts JM, MacDonald D. Implications of Managed Care for Medical Ethics. J So Carolina Med Assoc 1995;91(2):66-72    View PDF

Jones WJ, Sade RM. Economic Versus Social Priorities: Addressing Contradictions in Health Care Reform. Carolinas Health Services Quarterly. Summer, 1994;2(1):27-38  

Sade RM, All We Do Not Know. New Horizons in Cardiothoracic Surgery. http://www.ctsnet.org/sections/residents/newhorizons/article-7.html   View PDF

Presentations

Medical Ethics: Where does it come from? (PowerPoint file)

History: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery (PowerPoint file)

For further information, please contact: Robert M. Sade, MD, Professor of Surgery, MUSC and Director, Institute of Human Values in Health Care; Program Office at (843) 792-5278.