A workshop conference about the Patient Self Determination Act, living wills, and patient decision making and the role of health personnel was taped by Georgetown University's Center for Clinical Bioethics, which sponsored ...

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 ...

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