Tag / Bioethics
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![A graphic stating the Ethics Dispatch is like an ethics committee meeting in a box. With four topic sections: monthly hot topic, new clinical ethics case study, current bioethics news stories and ethical musing essay.]()
When the ECMO Bridge Leads Nowhere
No Tidy Answers: When the ECMO Bridge Leads Nowhere Perhaps it’s not about destination but the journey. That when we cannot alter the destination, we can profoundly shape the experience of getting there. The case study picks up the topic with a patient whose husband requests ECMO to save her life without her consent. Ryan follows up with the one question to ask about ECMO and other medical miracles. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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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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![A graphic stating the Ethics Dispatch is like an ethics committee meeting in a box. With four topic sections: monthly hot topic, new clinical ethics case study, current bioethics news stories and ethical musing essay.]()
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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![Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD, HEC-C, and Nanette Elster, JD, MPH, as our John B. Francis Co-Chairs in Bioethics.]()
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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Why Didn’t They Call a Clinical Ethicist?
Much of the action in Fox’s TV series, “Doc,” revolves around clinical ethics cases. One case involved a critically ill patient who never removed his ex-husband as proxy from his advance directive. Now, the patient’s current partner is in favor of a risky surgery; the ex-husband is opposed. Why wasn’t a clinical ethicist brought in to resolve the situation?
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![A graphic stating the Ethics Dispatch is like an ethics committee meeting in a box. With four topic sections: monthly hot topic, new clinical ethics case study, current bioethics news stories and ethical musing essay.]()
Ethics Dispatch November 2025 Beneficence
The November 2025 Ethics Dispatch discusses beneficence in the season of caring . What does it mean to actively do good? 150,000 people with serious mental illness live in nursing homes, often longer than their medical needs require because the broader system has no place for them to go. In the case study we learn about a patient ready for discharge, but no facilities will take him. Then we discuss the shortcomings of EMTALA and how they demonstrate the need to rediscover the theory of medicine so that its practice meets patients’ needs. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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October 23 2025 Bioethics Bulletin E-Newsletter
Read about justice in an age of misinformation in the Center for Practical Bioethics’ October 23, 2025 Bioethics Bulletin. Other topics include announcing the new Francis co-chairs, our upcoming free lecture, “Jazz, Bioethics, and the Moral Practice of Medicine,” our 2025 Vision to Action award winner, and watch a new case study on the meaning of expertise.
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![Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD, HEC-C, and Nanette Elster, JD, MPH, as our John B. Francis Co-Chairs in Bioethics.]()
The Center Welcomes Kayhan Parsi and Nanette Elster – A Tribute to Mentorship and Transformation
Read how our Vice President of Ethics Services, Ryan Pferdehirt, came to be one of Kayhan Parsi and Nanette Elster’s students and how working directly with them he learned new ways to apply his clinical ethics skills, expand his knowledge of pediatric ethics, and cultivate his bioethics scholarship.
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