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Preserving Patient Dignity (Formerly Patient Modesty) Volume 119
As can been seen and read on the previous Volumes, defining and establishing recognition and preserving the inherent dignity of each and every patient is a challenge for all those who attend them. It is a challenge which is not removable nor to be discarded but must be part of each and every interaction with a patient or even the patient ' s family. And even a pet cat as a ill cat and patient deserves dignified professional care. Such an example was published on Volume 118 but reproduced here as presented by JR. She contrasts the pet ' s attention and care with her current and prior description of th...
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - July 28, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs
VSED Webinar – Personal, Clinical, Ethical, Legal Perspectives
Susan and Elliott Schafer discuss how her mother (Beatrice Belopolsky) used VSED to avoid the late stages of her cancer.In a Fall 2020 presentation to the Orange County, NC Department on Aging, they also discuss clinical, ethical, and legal perspective...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 13, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Caring for My First Neo-Nazi Patient
How could I, the grandchild of four Holocaust survivors, be obligated to provide not just satisfactory, but exceptional care to such a morally repugnant character?
The post Caring for My First Neo-Nazi Patient appeared first on The Hastings Center.
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 19, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Susan Gilbert Tags: Health Care professional ethics Hastings Bioethics Forum Health and Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
In Memoriam: David Rothman
by Anil Rustgi, MD and Rita Charon, MD PhD
Dr. David J. Rothman, the Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and Director of the Division of Social Medicine and Professionalism in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University, an internationally renowned social and medical historian, died on August 30, 2020, at his home after a long cancer illness.
Dr. Rothman received his B.A. in History from Columbia in1958 and his Ph.D. in History from Harvard in 1964. He returned to Columbia and rose to the rank of Professor of History by 1971.…
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 14, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Featured Posts In Memoriam Source Type: blogs
Pediatric Fertility Preservation for Hormone Suppression in Transgender Youth
Last week, I received an e-mail update on current research and treatment being performed at the institution where I did my residency training. One of the interesting research areas was in the discipline of pediatric fertility preservation. Pediatric patients who undergo cancer treatments often take medications which cause destruction of their testicles or ovaries, not … Continue reading "Pediatric Fertility Preservation for Hormone Suppression in Transgender Youth"
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 1, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Mark McQuain Tags: Health Care bioethics biotechnology human dignity reproduction syndicated Source Type: blogs
Needs to Prepare for “Post-COVID-19 Syndrome”
This post will appear as an editorial in a future issue of the American Journal of Bioethics
by Robert Klitzman, MD
While attention has focused in many states and countries on the initial acute phase of COVID-19 pandemic and on lowering rates of infection and deaths, evidence suggests that among many survivors, the virus is causing ongoing symptoms that need to be more fully anticipated and addressed. Governments, healthcare institutions, providers, patients, family members, the media and the public need to recognize and plan to meet these patients’ ongoing needs.…
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 20, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Keisha Ray Tags: Decision making Editorial-AJOB Featured Posts Health Care Public Health #diaryofaplagueyear COVID-19 research resource allocation Source Type: blogs
Massachusetts Health Committee Makes History: Approves End of Life Options Bill for 1st Time since 2011 Introduction
On Friday afternoon, the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Public Health approved legislation that would authorize medical aid in dying as an end-of-life care option. This is the first time the committee approved such legislation since it was originally introduced
in 2011.
The Massachusetts End of Life Options
Act (H.1926 / S.1208), would give mentally capable, terminally ill individuals
with a prognosis of six months or less to live the option to request, obtain
and self-ingest medication to die peacefully in their sleep if their suffering
becomes unbearable.
“I can’t tell you how much this hist...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 1, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Cassandra Callender, Forced to Undergo Chemo, Dies at 22
Cassandra Callender, who was forced by Connecticut courts as a teenager to undergo chemotherapy for cancer, has died at age 22.
When she was 17, Cassandra and her mother refused treatment for her Hodgkin's lymphoma. This form of cancer has a high cure...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 17, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Denying Ventilators to Covid-19 Patients with Prior DNR Orders is Unethical
Previously-stated DNR status would seem irrelevant to ventilator allocation, and yet some existing and proposed guidelines for triage during a public health emergency list DNR status in the list of criteria for excluding patients from getting ventilators or other life-saving health care. This approach is in direct opposition to the generally agreed-upon goal of maximizing the number of survivors, and could result in confusion and public mistrust of the health care system.
The post Denying Ventilators to Covid-19 Patients with Prior DNR Orders is Unethical appeared first on The Hastings Center.
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 21, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Susan Gilbert Tags: Ethics Health Care COVID-19 DNR orders Hastings Bioethics Forum Health and Health Care syndicated ventilator allocation Source Type: blogs
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine Covid-19 Guidelines: In Favor of Delaying Most Infertility Treatments without Devaluing Them
In response to the global
Covid-19 pandemic, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)
created a specific task force to address infertility treatments, which were
only indirectly mentioned in other Covid-19 guidelines. Their guidelines
generated some controversy, as evidenced by a change.org
petition that as of this writing, has over 13,300 signatures opposing ASRM’s
recommendations to “[s]uspend initiation of new treatment cycles,” “[s]trongly
consider cancellation of all embryo transfers,” and “[s]uspend elective
surgeries and non-urgent diagnostic procedures.” More i...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 13, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care Author: Campo-Engelstein Fertility reproductive medicine reproductive rights syndicated Women's Reproductive Rights Source Type: blogs
‘Sophie’s Choice’ in the time of coronavirus: Deciding who gets the ventilator
Three otherwise healthy patients go to the emergency department with severe acute respiratory failure. Only one ventilator, required to sustain life until the worst of the coronavirus infection has passed, is available. Who gets the vent?
That’s what “A Framework for Rationing Ventilators and Critical Care Beds During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” a Viewpoint just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), addresses. Douglas White, MD, MAS, Endowed Chair for Ethics in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 6, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care Author: Lewis syndicated Source Type: blogs
Should Patients Diagnosed With Alzheimer ’s Or Dementia Be Able To Choose Assisted Suicide?
I was on KPCC (NPR) in Los Angeles, yesterday, to address the question "Should Patients Diagnosed With Alzheimer’s Or Dementia Be Able To Choose Assisted Suicide?"
A recent op-ed in the L.A. Times titled, “My friend has dementia and wants to end her life. California’s assisted-suicide law excludes her,” shines a light on the complexities of expanding the state’s law beyond patients with a cancer diagnosis or terminal illness.
The law, passed in 2015 and modeled after a 1997 Oregon statute, allows physicians to give lethal drugs to mentally competent adults when they’re faced with a termi...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 26, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
