"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 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 ...

Discussion of treatment decisions concerning four different patients by those involved in the cases provide insights for the viewer. The patient, the health care teams, and the patient's families are represented. Three ...

Dr. Edmund P. Pellegrino focuses on the dual obligation of the physician to the medical profession and to the patients. In a time of change in health care, he says that trust cannot be enforced nor can care become a ...

This CD-ROM contains a collection of resources designed to educate cancer patients, health care professionals, and the general public about cancer clinical trials. The disc contains written resources and slide programs ...

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 ...

"The relationship between spirituality and health has garnered increasing attention in recent years. Health care providers may not always know how best to respond to their patients' spiritual needs, while some may not ...

This program introduces the purpose of clinical trials and describes the way in which trials are carried out. In this program the focus is on cancer clinical trials but the information provided describes the conduct of ...