2023 Webinar Archive

A look at the paradox between the rights of patients, both to choose who participates in their care and their entitlement to the best possible care, vs. the societal need to train future healthcare providers by allowing them hands-on experience.

Drug shortages can adversely affect patient care, and this fact is more prevalent in oncology, where all of our studies link effective therapy to patient survival. While we as providers cannot avoid drug shortages, we have strategies that can reduce the impact to patient care. We will review what causes drug shortages, how we can improve our response to drug shortages, how different professions can contribute to shortage mitigation, and how to ethically allocate drug supply.

Dominant narratives of US eugenics portray a by-gone era, led by academic elites promoting pseudo-science, and concluding when the harms of Nazi eugenics became known. Emerging critical analyses reveal a more complex history entailing diverse eugenic experiences by race, ability, gender, indigeneity, and national origin that reflect a mutable, multilayered eugenic logic that endures to the present day.

By acknowledging the presence of trauma in patients’ and providers’ experiences, it is possible to consider the ethical and practical implications of that experience. Reflecting on the ethical grounding for a trauma informed approach and its role in building mutually respectful relationships between patients and their care providers demonstrated how this approach can be applied in practice in clinical ethics consultation and beyond.

The ABN’s June webinar will discuss the challenges a healthcare team faces when responding to requests for potentially inappropriate treatments and will examine diverse pathways to manage these ethical dilemmas.

Parental autonomy is foundational to our approach to decision-making in the neonatal ICU. This talk will explore complications that can arise when we treat patients according to values and preferences that are not necessarily their own.

The environment and health are closely entangled. Remarkably, bioethics and environmental ethics are often seen as differing fields with limited interaction. Various fields such as the philosophy of science, specifically the philosophy of medicine, and feminist posthumanism will be called upon to bridge this gap.

Corporate values have been identified as a critical resource that is often missing as a foundational component for decision-making. William Quigg has devised a simple four-to-five-part ethical guideline for resolving difficult problems rooted in corporate value statements. He considers the six key steps in consensus decision-making to increase team collaboration.

There are many ethical issues that can arise when a patient is referred to a neurosurgeon. Beyond informed consent, how does the neurosurgeon recognize these issues and respond to them? Ethical issues can arise in the clinic, during a scheduled operation, or in the trauma bay of the emergency department.