Increasing enthusiasm for the controversial practice of physician-assisted suicide — when doctors give patients the tools to end their own lives — shines a spotlight on the perennial challenge of how to die well. Contemporary approaches to the art of dying must take into account the strengths and limitations of medicine today, the increasing use […]
Author Archives: Columba Thomas
Brother Columba Thomas, OP, MD, is a Dominican friar studying for the priesthood and a physician specializing in Internal Medicine. He graduated from Yale School of Medicine in 2012 with distinction and won a prize for his thesis entitled, “Foretelling the Future of Prognostication: A Historically-Inspired, Domain-Based Approach for the Elderly.” His publications have appeared in a variety of journals, including JAMA Internal Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. He completed a Primary Care Residency and Chief Residency at Yale and attained board certification in Internal Medicine before joining the Dominicans in 2016. He is editor of The Art of Dying: A new, annotated translation (National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2021).
