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SURVIVORS Documentary Screening at NYU School of Medicine
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 3, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: GalN Tags: Health Care Current Topics syndicated Source Type: blogs
A Clinical Ethicist ’s Reflections on The Farewell
“Based on an Actual Lie”—thus begins The Farewell, a film that follows 30-year-old Billi from her New York City home to Changchun, China, where she and her family visit her dying grandmother Nai-Nai. Billi’s family arrives in Changchun under the guise of a wedding celebration for Nai-Nai’s grandson, but they have really come together to all be with Nai-Nai before she dies of stage IV lunch cancer. The ‘actual lie’ on which the story is based concerns the withholding of grim health information from the family’s matriarch; but this very substantial lie coexists with myria...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 1, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: End of Life Care Health Care autonomy Bioethics in the Media patient autonomy Senior Care social norms syndicated Source Type: blogs
Bioethics in Kentucky
I am heading to Kentucky this week to discuss medical aid in dying (MAID). As I familiarize myself with the landscape, I am humbled by the challenges facing Kentucky. Its citizens have a substantially higher cancer rate than anywhere else in the countr...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 29, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
BioethicsTV (September 24-27, 2019): #TheGoodDoctor, #TheResident, #NewAmsterdam, #CarolsSecondAct, #GreysAnatomy
The Good Doctor (Season 3; Episode 1): Cancer Diagnosis and Dementia; The Resident (Season 3; Episode 1): Profit over patients; New Amsterdam (Season 2; Episode 1): Social Justice; High Cost of Insulin; Carol’s Second Act (Season 1; Episode 1): Stereotyping Age; Grey’s Anatomy (Season 16; Episode 1): Too soon to die; ageism
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
Welcome back to the new Fall season of medical dramas. This year is a return of familiar shows which may indicate the current interest in these shows has peaked (seems that legal shows are cycling back).…
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 27, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: BioethicsTV Featured Posts Social Justice ageism Source Type: blogs
Bob ’s Choice: Why a Seattle Man Chose Death with Dignity (video)
KING-TV, an NBC-affiliated television station in Seattle, has posted a documentary on Bob Fuller's decision to die with dignity following a cancer diagnosis.
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 25, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
No More Clitting Around: Let ’s Talk about Clitoris Transplants
Quality of life transplantations (e.g. hand, face, etc.), in contrast to life-saving transplantations (e.g. heart, lungs, etc.), have become increasingly popular and have gained more acceptance in the medical and lay communities. In the last two decades transplants for sexual and reproductive organs—specifically allogenic transplantations of the uterus, ovary, and penis—have emerged as yet another type of quality of life transplants. The purpose of uterus transplantations is to allow cisgender women with absolute uterine factor infertility to experience pregnancy. Although the first uterus transplantation took ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 17, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care assisted reproduction feminist ethics reproductive medicine Sex and Sexuality surgical ethics syndicated transplantation Women's Reproductive Rights Source Type: blogs
Firing Doctor, Christian Hospital Sets Off National Challenge to Aid-in-Dying Laws
Kaiser Health News reports growing tension between conscience-based objection rights that Catholic healthcare facilities have under state law and those they have under federal law.
This week, Centura Health terminated Dr. Barbara Morris, 65, a geriatrician with 40 years of experience, who had planned to help her patient, Neil Mahoney, 64, end his life at his home. Mahoney, who has terminal cancer, is eligible to use the 2016 Colorado End of Life Options Act.
Morris and Mahoney had filed a lawsuit alleging that Centura’s faith-based policy violates the law that allows doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to dying patient...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 30, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Hospice Expert Shares Her Death Online
Virginia Public Radio does a nice job describing how Kathy Brandt used social media to share her dying from ovarian cancer.
The compelling story has also been nicely covered by Kaiser Health News and others.
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 17, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Live-Tweeting About Dying: Last Lessons from Kathy Brandt
Kathy Brandt, a leader in the hospice and palliative care movement in the United States, died on August 4. She was 53 and had been diagnosed with a rare, highly aggressive form of ovarian cancer in January. Brandt and her wife regularly posted on social media about their family's end-of-life experiences.
The post Live-Tweeting About Dying: Last Lessons from Kathy Brandt appeared first on The Hastings Center.
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 6, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Susan Gilbert Tags: Health Care Chronic Conditions and End of Life Care Hastings Bioethics Forum hospice palliative care social media syndicated Source Type: blogs
Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall, Who ’s The Happiest Cancer Patient Of All?
It is not a mirror you can easily use when trimming your beard or flossing your teeth. Because if you face it and aren’t smiling, this is what you see: Nothing but an opaque, glass surface. That’s because the mirror, … Continue reading →
The post Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall, Who’s The Happiest Cancer Patient Of All? appeared first on PeterUbel.com.
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 6, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: PeterUbel.com Tags: Health Care Peter Ubel syndicated Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Washington D.C. Progress in Implementing Medical Aid-in-Dying Act
Compassion & Choices today praised D.C. Health for
releasing two years of reports showing it is making progress in
implementing the D.C. Death with Dignity Act, despite repeated
congressional attempts to repeal the law since it took
effect on Feb. 18, 2017.
The D.C. Death with Dignity
Act
allows mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six months or less to live
to have the option to request a doctor’s prescription for medication they can
decide to take if their end-of-life suffering becomes unbearable, so they can
die peacefully in their sleep.
Eight states
currently allow medical aid in dying: California...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 3, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
