Three physicians, Nancy Cummings of the National Institutes of Health, Edmund D. Pellegrino, director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Ethics at Georgetown University, and Mark Seigler, director of the Center for ...

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 ...

A curriculum developed by Peter Angelos, M.D., Ph.D. and Debra A. DeRosa, Ph.D. to educate surgery residents at Northwestern University about ethics in surgery. The curriculum includes text (3-ring binder), overhead ...

This Trainer's Guide includes 1 looseleaf binder, 2 color videocassettes, and 4 computer diskettes. The videos are: "EPEC Plenaries 1, 3, and 4" and "EPEC Modules 1-12 Trigger Tape." Topics covered include: terminal care, ...

CBS 60 Minutes television program broadcast on February 28, 1999. Narrated by Mike Wallace

Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino is interviewed by Healthnet's Barbara Sollito about patient and family concerns with the decision making process in the withdrawing or withholding of treatment. Segment 1: Who Should Decide? ...

"He became known as 'the suicide doctor' and 'Dr. Death', and controversy followed him everywhere. Dr. Jack Kevorkian believed that terminally ill people had the right not only to die, but also to have the assistance of ...

"Today, medical technology enables us to keep people alive in situations that once would have meant their deaths. This situation often leads to painful decisions on how far we should go to keep seriously hurt or ill patients ...

Jack Glaser, director of ethics in the Sisters of Mercy health system, discusses the U.S. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research report Deciding to Forego ...