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The Ethical Question: Physician Assisted Suicide
(1992)
Topices in CME guide include 1) definitions; 2) withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment; 3) patient self-determination; 4) nonmaleficience and beneficence; 5) the relief of pain and suffering; 6) potential for abuse; 7) ...
Reasoning in Medical Ethics, Program No. 2
(1992)
Topics covered are: euthanasia and the right to die, AIDS and the health care professional, and patient rights. The program includes an interview with Dr. David H. Smith, a professor of medical ethics at the University ...
Medical Ethics: The Catholic Perspective (2007)
(2007)
"Medical Ethics: The Catholic Perspective is a series of ten 25-minute programs introduced by Dr. Daniel Sulmasy and designed to provide the Catholic Church's position on important medical ethics issues. Msgr. Robert Thelen ...
Ethical Issues in Orthopaedic Surgery: Discussion Guide to the Video Cases (2003)
(2003)
The ten cases, on topics selected by the Ethics Committee of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and the discussion guide were designed for use in an ethics course for orthopaedic surgeon residents or for self-study ...
The Right to Die (1985)
(1985)
The film examines ethical and emotional issues surrounding a patient's request to have his ventilator turned off so that he may die. The perspectives of the patient's wife, his physician, and his nurse are presented as ...
Ethical Issues in Orthopaedic Surgery (1998)
(1998)
This program was originally developed to help train orthopaedic residents. Ten clinical cases are presented to stimulate discussion. The associated discussion guide provides questions and answers focusing on the ethical ...
In Sickness or in Health: Making Decisions in Long-Term Care
(1990)
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 ...
Today's Bioethical Problems: Physician Assisted Suicide (1990 December 20)
(1990-12-20)
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 ...
Ethics in Surgery Curriculum. "Principles for Communicating Bad News" and "Advanced Directives and Withdrawal/Withholding of Treatment" (1999? )
(1999)
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 ...
Ethics at the Bedside (1991)
(1991-06-20)
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? ...