Tag / healthcare ethics
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April 29 2025 Email Newsletter
In this month’s e-newsletter, we discuss how algorithms raise ethical issues through four case studies, learn why Maggie Nuestadt serves as a board member, highlight an article on the increasing need for bioethicists, preview a new Ethics Dispatch, and provide a new video case study.
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Case Study – The Law or Ethics: Which Should Take Priority?
Bioethics case study on law and ethics in VIDEO and PRINT. What is legally supported isn’t always ethically supported. So what do you do when these two ideas conflict? Do you prioritize what you believe is right for the patient, or do you follow what the law allows?
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Maggie Neustadt Brings Risk Management and Clinical Ethics Goals Together
The primary goal of risk management in healthcare, according to Maggie Neustadt, Vice President for Risk Management for the BJC Health System, is to be a creative problem solver. To find compromises to complicated medical/ethical/legal questions.
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March 25 2025 Email Newsletter
Are we expecting too much from AI in healthcare? In this month’s e-newsletter, we discuss these expectations, Dr. Anderson’s personal journey toward empowered End-of-Life Choices for NHDD, and closer look at our ethics services for ethics committees.
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Case Study – Beneficence: Obligatory, Ideal and the Gray Space In Between
Bioethics case study on beneficence in VIDEO and PRINT. What is our responsibility to this patient? What does this patient deserve? Would it be obligatory beneficence for this patient to receive chemotherapy, or would it be ideal beneficence for that patient to receive it?
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February 25 2025 Email Newsletter
In this month’s e-newsletter, we discuss DIEB, the portrayal of bioethics in a new hospital drama show the Pitt, publish the latest Ethics Dispatch that discusses dementia ethics, and invite you to watch a case study video regarding dementia.
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Ethics Dispatch February 2025
As dementia cases continue to rise, healthcare systems will be faced with an increasing number of difficult discharge decisions. In this issue of the Ethics Dispatch, CPB raises questions about the ethical implications of dementia care and discusses upholding the principle of obligatory beneficence when addressing hospital discharges and long-term care planning.
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Case Study – Ethical Dilemma in Difficult Discharge Planning
Bioethics case study on an ethical dilemma in difficult discharge planning . The hospital cannot discharge him back to the care facility where he was previously living because they are unable to provide dialysis services, meaning he would need to be transferred to another location that can accommodate his medical needs. However, his legal guardian refuses the transfer.
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January 24 2025 Email Newsletter
Happy New Year! In this monthly newsletter we announce our new Flanigan Chair, learn about the Ethical AI program’s recent journal publication, read the latest Ethics Dispatch that discusses genetic testing ethics, and invite you to watch a case study video.
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Case Study – Genetic Testing Ethics
Bioethics case study on genetic testing ethics. The geneticist asked Emma’s mother if the hospital could conduct a genetic test. Initially, Emma’s mother agreed. However, after consulting with her attorney, she refuses the genetic test.
