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A bioethicist, physician and lawyer at Mount Sinai who works simultaneously as a novelist, playwright and authority on reproductive ethics, organ donation, and the health of U.S. presidents. His novel The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the 2012 Dundee International Book Prize, and he coined the term "whitecoat washing" to describe governments using medical partnerships to obscure human rights abuses, a rare case of a working psychiatrist shaping both fiction and bioethical vocabulary.