2024 Webinar Archive

This webinar explores the relationship between ethics and hospital length of stay (LOS), emphasizing how comprehensive ethics involvement can help address prolonged hospitalizations. We will discuss key ethical challenges that contribute to extended LOS, including unbefriended patients, insurance barriers, issues with informed consent, and conflicts surrounding the standard of care.

In this presentation, the concept of conscience at exercised in the practice of medicine will be defined by its essential features, highlighting exactly what is conscience and what it is not. The importance of protecting the exercise of conscience and conscience objection in the practice of medicine will be presented by highlighting the benefits to the field of medicine, to patients, to clinicians, and to colleagues while outlining the consequences of failing to protect conscience rights.

This webinar, hosted by the Arizona Bioethics Network (ABN), aims to provide an interactive educational experience for healthcare professionals, particularly those unfamiliar with or newly introduced to the ethics consultation process. Through expert-led discussions, the program will demonstrate how the fundamental principles of bioethics inform ethical decision-making in various clinical encounters.

A number of ethical and legal issues are involved in cases where ‘Medical Power of Attorney’ capacities are faulty or questionable. Central issues are whether the surrogate’s decision represents the patient’s own best interests and whether the decision is a fully-informed, reasonable choice.

Join us for an engaging webinar where we delve into the intersection of heat illness, ethics, and healthcare disparities. Our speakers will explore the ethical dimensions of heat illness alongside its medical and environmental implications.

Dr. Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD, FAAD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Dermatology at Stanford School of Medicine, explores the dynamic landscape of large language models (LLMs) within the healthcare domain. This presentation provides an examination of the processes involved in constructing LLMs and the limitations of these models.

Jesse’s Law, passed in Arizona as a reaction to a surrogate acting against the interests of a specific patient, now prevents intensivists and surrogates who are acting appropriately from discontinuing unwanted interventions in dying hospice patients.