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 ...

This DVD is part of a larger adult education resource "Vision & Voice: Faithful Citizens and Health Care." The print resources, including facilitators' manuals and participants' manuals are available free online without a ...

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 ...

Three situations are depicted in which the potential exists for older persons to lose control over decisions that are important for their later years. The scenarios occur in the hospital, at home, and at a beach house. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...