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) ...

Crusading military research medico Hoffman must stop a deadly virus that s somehow made its way from Africa to the U.S. -- little dreaming that his Army superiors have an agenda of their own. Dynamite suspense thriller ...

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 ...

This film is directed to health care staff. It discusses patients and their rights in nursing homes and raises the issue of health care decision making for both incompetent and competent residents. The program provides ...

Advance directives should be completed by patients when they are healthy to preserve the right of patients to make decisions about health care and "when to use or not use high technology." William Colby speaks on the Nancy ...