Author / Monica Delles
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Empowering Medical Trainees to Confront the Misinformation Epidemic
Empowering medical trainees to confront the misinformation epidemic. CPB Francis Co-Chair Kayhan Parsi and one of his medical students, Lily Rajaee, examine the misinformation problem and propose a framework involving three steps that can help guide productive conversations with patients. The Center for Practical Bioethics
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Case Study: When Vaccination Status Leads to Conflict
Bioethics case study on parents reacting defensively when doctors ask about the child’s vaccination status. Physicians question their response to anti-vax parents. Published by the Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Bioethics Case Study – When a Parent Overrules Their Child’s Best Interests
When parents overrule their child’s best interest is the topic of this Bioethics case study in VIDEO and PRINT. Patient self-determination and personal autonomy are central components of ethically appropriate care. Published by the Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Doing Harm: Vaccine Policy in the Age of Distortion
Doing Harm: Vaccine Policy in the Age of Distortion The January 2026 Ethics Dispatch discusses how the current head of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is calling for the reduction or even the elimination of childhood vaccine and by doing so, is doing harm. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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December 2025 Bioethics Bulletin E-Newsletter
We focus on the bioethics of ECMO in the Center for Practical Bioethics’ December 18, 2025 Bioethics Bulletin. We discuss ECMO in our Ethics Dispatch and video case study, while professors Dr. Kayhan Parsi and Nanette Elster begin shaping programming that bridges scholarship and the practice of bioethics.
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November 20 2025 Bioethics Bulletin E-Newsletter
Clinical ethics is the focus of the Center for Practical Bioethics’ November 20, 2025 Bioethics Bulletin. We discuss the bioethics principle of beneficence and using hospitals to continue to care for some patients instead of other recovery facilities which refuse to admit the patients.
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Interview with Kayhan Parsi and Nanette Elster: the John B. Francis Co-Chairs in Bioethics
Interview with Kayhan Parsi and Nanette Elster: the John B. Francis Co-Chairs in Bioethics Since joining the Center this fall, Professors Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD, HEC-C, and Nanette Elster, JD, MPH, discuss what excites them most about supported decision-making, disability ethics, and the future of bioethics education. Center for Practical Bioethics
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Case Study: Starting ECMO Without Consent
Bioethics case study on starting ECMO without consent. Starting ECMO: Husband Requests Intervention for Wife Without Her Consent The patient’s husband requests ECMO without her consent. Center for Practical Bioethics
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Bioethics Case Study – ECMO and Healthcare Technology
Bioethics case study on ECMO and Healthcare Technology in VIDEO and PRINT. Technology Means Hard Choices: To Start or Not to Start ECMO. His wife became critically ill and had to be transferred to the ICU after delivering her baby via emergency C-section. She continued to decline in the ICU to the point that her only chance of survival was to be transferred to another hospital to start ECMO. Published by the Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Case Study: Undocumented Patient Relies on Hospital ED
Bioethics case study on undocumented patients denied care. Mr. Ramirez is a 44-year-old male with multiple medical conditions, including cirrhosis of the liver and acute kidney failure. He has expressed that outpatient dialysis would indeed be his preference, but due to his undocumented status, accessing it is not an option.
