By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to evolve and to incorporate its way into our lives. Versions of AI now routinely tell Americans where to eat, what routes to take, and what movies to watch. Artificial Intelligence is also making in-roads into medical decision-making, as diagnosis and treatment recommendations become more personalized. That has […]
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: So Donald Trump now has the coronavirus. As of press time for this blog post, he is fighting the illness from the Presidential Suite at Walter Reed Medical Center. It is news that struck many as both surprising and predictable: Surprising in the way that it has upended a campaign
By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: Take a moment and visualize what your next in-person jury trial might look like. The jurors arrive at the courthouse and have their temperature checked while being asked whether they or anyone in their household have been coughing, sneezing, running a fever, or showing any other symptom of COVID-19. They
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: During the current coronavirus pandemic, there have been individual differences in the degree of compliance with the social restrictions coming down from city mayors and state governors. As I have written, some of the support or opposition for “Stay-at-Home” orders varies based on politics. But some of it also comes
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: Imagine that you have in front of you a Bernie Sanders supporter or a Donald Trump supporter. Go ahead and pick whichever one of those is opposite your own political views. Now, convince them that they’re wrong. Assuming that they’re true believers, and not in any way on the fence,
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: About once every other month, I will present at a seminar for doctors and other medical professionals. They attend because they’ve been sued and they’re learning how to cope with their newfound role in the legal process. At one point in the seminar, a psychiatrist presenting on litigation stress will usually
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: Our thinking about morality is often that it is some kind of divine spark in humans, or something spiritual that comes from within. But what if it is merely a set of habits that developed as we evolved, a set of rules that originated and persisted because they helped societies
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: Social scientists who study political orientation are realizing that it is something more than discrete attitudes about issues or candidates. Research shows that one’s identification as “liberal” or “conservative” also has to do with brain wiring. For example, some studies have found that conservatives tend to be more motivated by fear
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: “Epistemology,” or the question of how we know what we know, seems like an abstract rather than a practical idea. But when it comes to the practical task of assessing and persuading jurors, the epistemological habits of those jurors can play a very real role. Their own styles of deciding what
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: There’s a logical reaction when one hears about some of the claims that end up as the basis for a medical malpractice claim. That reaction might go something like this: So the injury that the plaintiff complains of, that’s a known complication, isn’t it?
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