2013 Rosemary Flanigan Lecture:
"How (Future) Doctors Think: Medical Students Make Sense of the World."
On Tuesday, July 30th, 2013, Felicia Cohn was the 19th annual Flanigan lecturer, describing research with medical...
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A therapist with 6 children, Seth Haney describes in September 2012 the accident in 2010 that left him with chronic pain and his frustrations with the healthcare system in seeking...
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In 2012, American Medical News reported two not wholly unrelated articles. One article was about the Supreme Court of Georgia striking down a law intended to prevent assisted suicide. The...
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Daniel Goldberg of East Carolina University explains why viewing pain as a disease symptom - rather than a disease itself - has contributed to the neglect of this condition in...
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In early 2012, at age 85, Dr. Rosemary Flanigan suffered and survived a heart attack. Fifteen years earlier, Dr. Flanigan wrote: “It makes me mad. There’s a pervasive assumption out...
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The Center has promoted Caring Conversations for years as a way for families to prepare for serious illness or the end of life. Over time, it became apparent that, oftentimes...
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On October 5, 2011, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported the results of a study indicating that advance directives specifying limits at the end of life may have...
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Where have we been, where are we going when it comes to clinical ethics and hospital ethics committees? Two individuals - MC Sullivan, director of ethics for Covenant Health Systems...
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A 2011 Report on Pain by the Institute of Medicine indicates some 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Author Judy Foreman discusses the book she was writing, A Nation...
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