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UT Southwestern Medical Center Ethics Grand Rounds - 2005/2006
(2005)This document lists the schedule of Ethics Grand Rounds events for September 2005 through May 2006. -
UT Southwestern Medical Center Ethics Grand Rounds - 2006/2007
(2006)This document lists the schedule of Ethics Grand Rounds events for September 2006 through May 2007. -
UT Southwestern Medical Center Ethics Grand Rounds - 2007/2008
(2007)This document lists the schedule of Ethics Grand Rounds events for September 2007 through May 2008. -
UT Southwestern Medical Center Ethics Grand Rounds - 2008/2009
(2008)This document lists the schedule of Ethics Grand Rounds events for September 2008 through May 2009. -
UT Southwestern Medical Center Ethics Grand Rounds - 2009/2010
(2009)This document lists the schedule of Ethics Grand Rounds events for September 2009 through May 2010. -
UT Southwestern Medical Center Ethics Grand Rounds - 2010/2011
(2010)This document lists the schedule of Ethics Grand Rounds events for September 2010 through May 2011. -
UT Southwestern Medical Center Ethics Grand Rounds - 2011/2012
(2011)This document lists the schedule of Ethics Grand Rounds events for September 2011 through May 2012. -
UT Southwestern Medical Center Ethics Grand Rounds - 2012/2013
(2012)This document lists the schedule of Ethics Grand Rounds events for September 2012 through May 2013. -
How can a safety net be the catalyst for creating a healthier community?
(2012-09-11)The Parkland Health & Hospital System is one of the Nation's largest and most complicated safety net institutions. It provides care for over 40,000 admissions, 12,000 deliveries and 1.3 million outpatient and ED visits per ... -
What makes killing wrong?: and why it matters
(2012-10-09)What makes an act of killing morally wrong is not that the act causes loss of life or consciousness but rather that the act causes loss of all remaining abilities. This account implies that it is not even pro tanto morally ... -
Politics and the ethics of health care reform (The Daniel W. Foster, M.D., Visiting Lectureship in Medical Ethics)
(2012-11-13)In the wake of the Supreme Court decision in June, and the election in early November, we will have a good view of the arc of health care reform for the first time. Reform should be judged from economic, political, and ... -
UT Southwestern Medical Center Ethics Grand Rounds - 2013/2014
(2013)This document lists the schedule of Ethics Grand Rounds events for September 2013 through May 2014. -
Physician stewardship of healthcare resources
(2013-01-08)Stewardship may be defined as the judicious management of resources that others entrust to one's care. Physicians are entrusted with decision-making authority in health care; decision making that often draws on pooled ... -
Expanding living kidney donation: ethical and policy considerations
(2013-02-12)In 1954 the first successful living donor kidney transplant was performed between identical twins. With the improvement in immunosuppression, ABO compatible friends, spouses and even strangers can now donate kidneys to ... -
On wealth and wrongdoing: how social class influences unethical behavior
(2013-03-12)Social class exerts a significant influence on ethical decisions and behavior. Psychological research finds that individuals from higher social class backgrounds are more likely to prioritize themselves---their individual ... -
The need for evidence and values-informed policy making: the case for public engagement
(2013-04-09)We are living in a very angry and divisive time in our national life. The polarization is preventing us from reaching agreements about needed solutions to important and urgent public problems, including many public health ... -
Meeting the challenges: bringing evidence-based treatment to the pregnant patient
(2013-05-14)Because of the ethical challenges of conducting randomized controlled clinical trials with women who are or may become pregnant, there is insufficient information regarding the risks to the fetus for the majority of ... -
Alternatives to whistleblowing, or how to intervene effectively and still have a career and life afterwards
(2013-09-10)We have learned that scientific misbehavior (that is, any scientific conduct that causes the scientific record to be inaccurate, not just plagiarism, falsification and fabrication), is very widespread and that persons who ... -
Physician accountability for torture: emerging standards for practice
(2013-10-08)Physicians are complicit with torture in many countries. They develop methods that leave no scars, keep prisoners alive who are not supposed to die, and falsify medical records and death certificates to conceal tortures. ... -
Avoiding harm and improving care near the end of life: what good can ethics do? (The Daniel W. Foster, M.D., Visiting Lectureship in Medical Ethics)
(2013-11-12)Patient care situations in which there is uncertainty about how to relieve suffering, make medical decisions on behalf of others, work with families in conflict, resolve disagreements among team members, or respond to ...