Pain Contracts: Great Good or Great Harm? MP3

Can pain contracts produce great good or great harm? Scott Fishman, MD, University of California, Davis, discusses why he sees pain contrats as a useful tool when they enhance communication between clinician and patient.

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2013 Flanigan Lecture MP3

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...

A Voice of Pain - Seth Haney MP3

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...

Ambivalence about End of Life Planning a…

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...

Pain and Public Health: Symptom or Disea…

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...

Preview of A Nation in Pain by Judy Fore…

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...

After the Heart Attack - Dr. Flanigan on…

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...

Caring Conversations – A Partnership Bet…

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...

A Status Report on Clinical Ethics and H…

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...

Advance Directives and Spending at the E…

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...