After Class Medical Ethics Heli Patel, Grace Severance, Mike McCarthy

Informed consent is a complex topic which encompasses more than just risk disclosure, but involves decision making and dialogue. Keeping autonomy at the center, we discuss nuances of communication, timing, and how to most ethically discuss consenting to a procedure.

Welcome back! For today's episode, Grace sits down with Dr. Erin Kelly, a fellow in Palliative and Hospice Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University, to discuss surrogate decision making - what it is, how does it affect patient care, and how do doctors and surrogate decision makers work together to make the best decisions for patients when they can't communicate their desires themselves. We also finish the episode with a fantastic discussion about Palliative Medicine and why you should keep it on your radar if you're a medical student deciding on what specialty to go into. We hope you enjoy this episode! (And please excuse any recording errors!)

Death is an integral part of the human experience. For many, it is perceived as a sad or uncomfortable process, but it doesn’t have to be. Today, Grace and Anthony sit down with Jared Raikin and Emily Folse, student leaders from Jefferson’s chapter of No One Dies Alone, to discuss this natural transition in human life for those going through it and those by their side.

Michael sits down with John A. Di Camillo, PhD to discuss the philosophy of personalism, its history, his experience as a translator, and what personalism has to teach us about clinical medicine.  

Further reading: 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/personalism/ 

https://dappledthings.org/2075/personalist-bioethics-a-translators-reflections/

Personalist Bioethics Amazon link

Mike, Grace, and Heli get festive for the final episode of 2020...  

(Closing music credit to https://hymnary.org/media/fetch/179359)

We're pleased to introduce “To the End: Topics in End of Life Care”, a mini-series that focuses on ethical questions surrounding the decisions we make at the end of life. In this episode, Grace, Heli, Mike, and Anthony discuss patient autonomy and informed consent as critical components of healthcare ethics and delivery with Dr. Diann Ecret, a nurse-bioethicist who obtained her PhD in healthcare ethics from Duquesne University.