This one hour program focuses on a unique team of ethicists at the University of Chicago Medical Center. The program is a four-part story that takes the viewer behind the scenes to the bedside to examine the state of the ...

The videocassette is a varied teaching aide with eight open ended dramatizations to stimulate discussion about ethical dilemmas which are based on actual cases. They include: The Old Person's Friend: portrays in a hospital ...

"This videotape gives medical caregivers, clergy, laypersons, and patients an in-depth understanding of advance directives. It features Henry S. Perkins, M. D., Associate Professor of medical Ethics at the University of ...

Topics covered in CME guide include 1) definitions; 2) issues related to access and cost; 3) some causes of increased health care costs; 4) care of patients and costs to society; 5) ethical concerns about rationing; 6) ...

"The film, which is set to premiere Thursday, February 26th, 2009 on CBC at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT), is a DNA detective story, full of twists, turns, and big surprises. Along the way, Stevens (who previously made the award-winning ...

The film depicts a hospital staff that is not prepared for the psychosocial impact of caring for AIDS patients. Infection control procedures have been established in the institution, but personnel have not yet become ...

Consisting of six dramatic scenes, each illustrates one step or phase in a `typical' organ and tissue donation conversation. Possible scenarios are enacted to help health personnel given the responsibility of discussing ...

Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., moderates a panel, speaking for most of this cassette on the moral obligation of the physician to treat AIDS patients. Saying that the patient has an obligation to be tested for disease, he ...

The emphasis in this video program and the interactive workbook is on the health care proxy and the good communication and trust necessary to share your own wishes for health care and for your health care proxy to ask ...

Asking whether mercy killing is a blessing and an answer to terminal illness and intractable pain, or a beginning to a new holocaust, William F. Buckley, Jr. narrates the film. It includes short presentations by persons ...