A workshop conference about the Patient Self Determination Act, living wills, and patient decision making and the role of health personnel was taped by Georgetown University's Center for Clinical Bioethics, which sponsored ...

Topics covered are: euthanasia and the right to die, AIDS and the health care professional, and patient rights. The program includes an interview with Dr. David H. Smith, a professor of medical ethics at the University ...

"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) ...

Conference held in the Natcher Conference Center-Main Auditorium on November 18, 1999 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Spiral bound booklet of references and resources and video available. Speakers and Topics are: Jeff Kahn ...

Through this documentary filmed in the Netherlands (in Dutch with English subtitles) we are permitted to come to know Antoinette and Cees de Joode and their doctor Dr. Van Oijen, a family practitioner, as they discuss Cees' ...

The drama features discussions between family members about health care decisions, advance directives, and surrogate decision making, and is patient oriented.

Bruce B. Dan, M.D. moderates a discussion among three physicians: Edmund D. Pellegrino of Georgetown University, Arnold Relman, former New England Journal of Medicine editor, and David Rogers, Cornell Medical School, who ...

Part I: Patient and Family Education. The narrator suggests that a health care ethics committee can function as a "health care guide service." Three questions about ethics committees are addressed in this section of the ...

Betty Ferrell; Center for Healthcare Ethics, St. Joseph Health System, Orange, CA