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March 2026 Bioethics Bulletin E-Newsletter
How Institutional Barriers Conflict with Ethical Action is the subject for the March 31, 2026 Bioethics Bulletin. Topics include: The Screening Bioethics first episode, “The Pitt Makes Bioethics Relevant,” Mike Rode Continues Stowers Legacy at the Center for Practical Bioethics, Two CPB Board Members Honored: Stephen Salanski and Catherine Satterwhite, Blurred Lines at the Bedside: A Call for Ethical Presence, and the March Ethics Dispatch titled, Ethical Leadership in Healthcare: One Key Element Diminishing Moral Distress through Justice. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Blurred Lines at the Bedside: A Call for Ethical Presence
Ethical presence honors humanity and fosters humility. A clinical ethicist explores the ethical issues nurses confront in patient care and the need for organizational leaders to pay greater attention to the role ethics plays in addressing these challenges. She concludes with a call to foster an ethical culture by investing in ethics services. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Mike Rode Continues Stowers Legacy at the Center for Practical Bioethics
Mike Rode Continues Stowers Legacy at the Center for Practical Bioethics. Mike Rode is a board member for the Center and Vice President and Senior Investment Director at American Century since 2018.
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Case Study: Medical Team Disagrees
Medical team members believe that the primary attending may be prolonging Mr. Blake’s death rather than saving his life and allowing his suffering to continue. Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Ethical Leadership in Healthcare: One Key Element
Justice strengthens leadership, and conversely, when leadership lacks justice, moral distress proliferates. Leaders who model fairness signal that ethical concerns are legitimate operational considerations. They’re a practical necessity – not distractions from efficiency. In Ethical Musings, we compare the ad hominem ethical fallacy to other ethical systems’ approach to judging moral character and leadership. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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February 2026 Bioethics Bulletin E-Newsletter
Read the February 24, 2026 Bioethics Bulletin. Topics include: The Necessity of Narrative Medicine in Treating Disabled Patients, Code Status Decisions for End-Stage Cancer: Resolving the Ethical Dissonance, The Bystander Effect, and When Empathy Turns to Fear. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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January 2026 Bioethics Bulletin E-Newsletter
Read the January 28, 2025 Bioethics Bulletin. Topics include: Empowering Medical Trainees to Confront the Misinformation Epidemic, Ethics Services Strengthens Decisions, Hospital Teams and Patient Outcomes, When Vaccination Status Leads to Conflict, and an interesting Case Study: At what point do the best interests of the patient, and thus the principle of beneficence, overcome the patient’s right to autonomy? The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Bioethics Case Study – Empathy in Ethics Consultation Supports Family
Using empathy in healthcare ethics consultations is the topic of this Bioethics case study in VIDEO and PRINT. This case illustrates how the ethics consultant discovered the underlying reason for the family’s reluctance to let go and find a way to meet their need with empathy. Published by the Center for Practical Bioethics.
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The Bystander Effect: Epstein, AI, Minneapolis, and the Holocaust
The author draws connections between what she’s learned about bystanders then and what she sees unfolding now in the Epstein scandal, artificial intelligence, and Minneapolis. She wonders what, if anything, we have learned about taking a stand and what difference that can still make. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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The Necessity of Narrative Medicine in Treating Disabled Patients
The necessity of narrative medicine in treating disabled patients is discussed in this blog. The authors propose using narrative as one way to increase health literacy and reduce bias and ableism and offer a framework to approach clinical encounters with disabled patients. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
