News
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The Affordable Care Act and Future of Free Health Clinics
The environment for free health clinics will change with full implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
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Community experience partnership to engage older adults
Community Experience Partnership engages older adults in communities across the country.
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Implications of 2012 election on Bioethics & the affordable care act
John Carney, president and CEO of the Center, discusses key bioethics issues he expected to be debated, post 2012 election
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A Voice of pain Maggie Buckley
The IOM reports more than 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain at a cost of up to $635 billion each year.
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POLST to TPOPP
POLST coalitions (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) are developing across the country.
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Should Doctors Refuse to Treat Unvaccinated People?
Bioethicists at the Center for Practical Bioethics debate if doctors should refuse to treat unvaccinated patients.
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Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has informed our collective conscience about what ought not to be, what we should be doing more of, and the need to keep alive the realities of what we have endured and too many have suffered.
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Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2020
From the mid-1980s when ventilators came into common use, the Center for Practical Bioethics has helped patients, families, providers and policymakers make decisions about what ought to be done given what can be done.
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Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2020
People don’t like to talk about politics, religion or money. To that we would add advance care planning. Advance care planning is the process of clarifying your life goals and values, and making sure your healthcare preferences are known and honored.
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Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2019
A 52-year old African American woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was rapidly deteriorating. Doctors tried to explain her options: hospice or surgery to attach her to a ventilator for the rest of her life. Mom couldn’t decide, her daughter said, because she didn’t trust her doctors. She had nightmares about doctors hurting her.
