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The EthicsLab Podcast explores current health care ethics issues with national experts to provide better knowledge and practical results. Join us as we work to enable health care professionals and community leaders to deliver the best possible health care experience.

Healing Spirits: The Intersection of Chaplaincy and Ethics

Chaplaincy and spiritual care are essential components…

Allocating Blood Products: A New Approach to Scarcity

One of the most difficult problems facing hospitals and…

Rural Healthcare: Unique Ethical Perspectives

According to the United States Centers for Disease Control…

Beyond Limitations: Disability and Quality of Life

When you hear the phrase quality of life, what comes…

Ethics Committees: Part II Data & ROI

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In our two part series, we have been unpacking how health…

Ethics Committees: Assessing Impact

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It is not unusual for tough choice decisions to be made…

Nudging: Influence Without Manipulation

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What type of influence should physicians, nurses and…

Drug Shortages: Impacting Care

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Drug shortages in health care occur for many reasons and…

Racial Disparities: SOFA and Allocation

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In March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic created a devastating…

Transgender Health: Accompaniment

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If primary health care professionals are to serve and accompany…

Addiction and Trust: Part II from Melbourne

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Offering a composite picture of someone with a drug addiction…

Harm Reduction: Safe Injection Sites

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Harm reduction programs like needle exchange programs or…

Virtual Ethics Consultation: A Digital Approach

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Today, tough choice healthcare ethics dilemmas are discussed…

Portland Street Medicine: A Local Picture

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Street Medicine is local and international. In this second…

Street Medicine: Serving an Excluded Community

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A 2019 White House Report tells us that half a million people…

COVID-19: Physicians Diving Deep

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COVID19 has caused all of us to prepare and it…

COVID-19: The Ethical Landscape

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On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared…

Undocumented Patients: Two Journeys

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We hear many stories these days about immigration. Certainly,…

Paying Attention: Looking Back, Looking Forward (2020)

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As we look back on 2019 and forward to 2020, our…

End of Life Disparities: The African American Community

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Health disparities and health outcomes for African Americans,…

HIV Disclosure: New Ethical Approaches

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New research findings regarding HIV status will impact how…

Urban Bioethics: Building Trust

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Urban Bioethics may be a new term for you. It is a field…

Patient Access: Right to Try

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Imagine you are a patient that is seriously ill and the standard…

Brain Death: A Foundational Yet Emotional Ethical Concept

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Brain death is a fundamental ethical topic that is complex…

Feeding Tubes: Are Things What They Seem?

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Why would the question of whether to provide food and water…

The Work: Reflections of Two Healthcare Ethicists

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Those who work on responding to the ethical issues and decisions…

Artificial Intelligence: Issues Arising

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In healthcare, we are able to capture ever increasing…

Goals of Care

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Goals of care is a term so common to health care professionals…

Informed Consent: Supporting Patient Autonomy

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Informed consent is one of the foundational ethical principles…

Discharge Dilemmas: Patients with Disabilities

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Consider someone leaving a hospital, after their care is completed…

Paying Attention: Looking Back, Looking Forward (2019)

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As we look back on 2018 and forward to 2019, our guests are…

Psychiatric Disability and Life Threatening Non-Adherence

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Imagine a patient who suffers from an underlying psychiatric…

Mental Health and Discrimination: Mass Shooting Stereotypes

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In the wake of past and more recent mass shootings, mental…

Organ Donation: Foundational Ethical Approaches

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The big picture is that 115,000 men, women and children await…

Do Not Resuscitate Orders: Key Ethical Issues

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As patients, surrogate decision makers, and clinicians discuss…

Moral Distress and Moral Resiliency

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Have you ever experienced an event, a situation or a decision…

Today’s Gene Editing Choices: Inclusion and Diversity

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The pace of developments in genetic editing over the past…

Whole Person Care: An Ethic of Care

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On EthicsLab we often look at specific clinical ethical issues,…

Precision Medicine – Its Potential and Questions

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Since the Human Genome Project was declared complete in April…

Practical Tools Helping Ethics Committees

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Health care ethics committees help patients and clinicians…

Beyond Capacity: Assessing Challenging Cases

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One of the challenging areas in clinical practice today is…

Paying Attention: Looking Back, Looking Forward

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Our guests are editors of key healthcare ethics journals…

Traction: Innovative Practices Honoring Patient Wishes

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Health care professionals, patients and family members could…

Thinking Differently: Building Blocks for a Quality Ethics Program

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Are there better ways to build and support a culture of clinical…

The Unrepresented Patient

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Our guests in this episode include: Dr. Bethany Kapp,…

Human Trafficking

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Human Trafficking is an egregious form of exploitation of vulnerable…

The Future of Healthcare Ethics

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Tune in to this latest episode of the EthicsLab podcast.…