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 ...

New York City physician Russell Kellogg offers guidelines for health care personnel in talking to the elderly about their views on advance directives and the kind of care they might wish to receive near the end of life. ...

Produced for the Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics at Dartmouth

Attendees at the briefing were invited to bring questions they had about current health care reform bills and other efforts and to pose them to the panel of experts. The panel covered such issues as comparing and contrasting ...

Mary Starke Harper, Ph.D., R.N., was a student nurse during the federally-funded study of untreated syphilis among African American men in Tuskegee, Alabama. When she spoke about the history of human experimentation at the ...

"A dramatization of a conversation between health care professionals and parents of an 8-year-old patient. Parents raise and professionals respond to common fears and concerns regarding opioid pain medications." This video ...

"Dean and Inez Davis, guardians of nine grandchildren, recount their experience with their granddaughter, Sherquanda, who was diangosed with a brain tumor from which she died at age 9. They discuss the centrality of trust, ...

"The Project was launched in April 2008 with the forum, ?Values Inside the Issues: Religious Voices Discuss Health Care Reform.? Panelists include Rabbi David, Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform ...