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SESSION 1:
Wednesday, 10/17
1:00 - 1:50 Presentation
2:00 - 2:50 (A)
3:00 - 3:50 (B)
4:00 - 4:50 (C) |
Culture and Professionalism
Readings:
Ashley Fernandes and Robert D. Reece, “Notes on Professionalism”
American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, “Medical
Professionalism in the New Millennium” A Physician Charter”
Herbert Swick et al., “Beyond the Physician Charter: Reflections
on Medical Professionalism”
“Oath of Hippocrates”
American Medical Association, “Principles of Medical Ethics”
WSU, “Medical Student Pledge of Ethics”
Ethics Case |
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SESSION 2:
Wednesday, 10/24
1:00 - 1:50 Presentation
2:00 - 2:50 (A)
3:00 - 3:50 (B)
4:00 - 4:50 (C) |
Introduction to Ethics
Readings:
Mary T. White, “Introduction to Ethics” (Notes)
Lauris Kaldjian et al., “A Clinician’s Approach to Clinical
Ethical Reasoning”
James Dwyer, “Primum non Tacere: An Ethics of Speaking Up”
Edmund Pellegrino, “Toward a Reconstruction of Medical Morality”
FOUR-BOX METHOD
Ethics Case |
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SESSION 3:
Wednesday, 10/31
1:00 - 1:50 Presentation
2:00 - 2:50 (A)
3:00 - 3:50 (B)
4:00 - 4:50 (C)
QUIZ |
Autonomy and Its Limits
Readings:
Mary T. White, “Autonomy” (Notes)
John Stuart Mill, “On Liberty” (1859)
Tom Beauchamp and LeRoy Walters, “Respect for Autonomy”
Leslie Blackhall et al., “Ethnicity and Attitudes Toward
Patient Autonomy”
Ethics Case |
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| SESSION 4:
Wednesday, 11/7
1:00 - 1:50 Presentation
2:00 - 2:50 (A)
3:00 - 3:50 (B)
4:00 - 4:50 (C)
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Competence, Incompetence, Paternalism,
and Advance Directives
Readings:
Mary T. White, “Decision-Making Capacity and Competence”
(Notes)
Ashley Fernandes and Robert Reece, “Notes on Advance Directives”
Jerome Groopman, “Grandpa Max”
Nancy Linnon, “Postpartum”
Advance Directives (forms)
Ethics Case |
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SESSION 5:
Wednesday, 11/14
1:00 - 1:50 Presentation
2:00 - 2:50 (A)
3:00 - 3:50 (B)
4:00 - 4:50 (C) |
Confidentiality, Truth-Telling, & Informed Consent
Readings:
Robert D. Reece, “Some Notes on Confidentiality”
Buckman Protocol
Anthony Black and Robert M. Arnold, “Taking your Communication
Skills to the Next Level (Virtual Mentor)
Robert D. Reece, “Some Notes on Informed Consent”
President’s Commission, Notes from “Informed Consent as
Active, Shared, Decision-Making” (MTW, ed.)
Atul Gawande, “Whose Body Is It, Anyway?”
Ethics Case |
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SESSION 6:
Wednesday, 11/28
1:00 - 2:50 Presentation
2:00 - 2:50 (A)
3:00 - 3:50 (B)
4:00 - 4:50 (C)
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Religion, Spirituality,
and Health Care
Daniel Hall and Farr Curlin, “Can Physicians’ Care be Neutral
Regarding Religion?”
Daniel P. Sulmasy, “Spiritual Issues in the Care of Dying
Patients”
Susan Onthank Mates, “Laundry”
Ethics Case |
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SESSION
7:
Wednesday. 12/5
1:00-2:50 Presentation
2:00 - 2:50 (A)
3:00 - 3:50 (B)
4:00 - 4:50 (C)
QUIZ
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Ethics and the End of Life
Readings:
Robert Reece and Ashley Fernandes, Notes: “Ethics and the
End of Life”
Timothy Quill, “Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized
Decision-Making”
Edmund Pellegrino, “Compassion Needs Reason Too”
Ethics Case |
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SESSION
8:
Wednesday, 1/16
1:00-2:50 Presentation
2:00 - 2:50 (A)
3:00 - 3:50 (B)
4:00 – 4:50 (C) |
Infectious
Disease, Bioterrorism, and Public Health
Readings:
Jon Mark Hirshorn and David Morris, “Emergency Medicine
and the Health of the Public”
John L. Hick and Daniel O’Laughlin, “Concept of Operations
for Triage of Mechanical Ventilation in an Epidemic”
Lawrence Gostin et al., “Ethical and Legal Challenges
Posed by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome”
Ethics Case |
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SESSION
9:
Wednesday, 1/23
1:00-2:50 Presentation
No Small Groups |
Disabilities
Readings:
Mary T. White, Notes: “Disabilities: The Patient's Perspective”
Nancy Mairs, “On Being a Cripple”
Carol Levine, “Acceptance, Avoidance, and Ambiguity: Conflicting
Social Values about Childhood Disability”
Ethics Case |
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10:
Wednesday, 1/30
1:00-1:50 Presentation
2:00 - 2:50 (A)
3:00 - 3:50 (B)
4:00 – 4:50 (C)
QUIZ |
Ethical
Issues in Assisted Reproduction
Readings:
Ashley Fernandes, Notes: “Ethical Issues in Assisted Reproduction”
Michael Ryan, “Countdown to a Baby”
Katrina Clark, “Who’s Your Daddy? Mine was a Sperm Donor”
Ethics Case |
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SESSION
11:
Wednesday, 2/6
1:00-1:50 Presentation
2:00 - 2:50 (A)
3:00 - 3:50 (B)
4:00 – 4:50 (C) |
Health
Care Disparities
President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems
in Medicine, “An Ethical Framework for Access to Care”
Allen Buchanan, “Is there a Right to a Decent Minimum of
Health Care?”
Marcia Angell, “The Doctor as Double Agent”
Uwe Reinhardt, “Wanted: A Clearly Articulated Social Ethic
For American Health Care”
(All excerpted from Ronald Munson, Intervention
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12:
Wednesday, 2/13
1:00-1:50 Presentation
2:00 - 2:50 (A)
3:00 - 3:50 (B)
4:00 – 4:50 (C) |
Medical
Errors, Risk Management. and Medical Malpractice
Readings:
Atul Gawande, “When Doctors Make Mistakes”
Kaveh Shojana et al., “Graduate Medical Education and Patient
Safety: A Busy—and Occasionally Hazardous—Intersection”
David Studdert, et al., “Medical Malpractice”
Rachel Zimmerman, “Medical Contrition”
Ethics Case |
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SESSION
13:
Wednesday, 2/20
1:00-2:50 Presentation
2:00 - 2:50 (A)
3:00 - 3:50 (B)
4:00 – 4:50 (C)
QUIZ |
Ethical
Issues in Public and Global Health
Readings:
Susana Borroto Gutierrez, Tsutomu Mizota, and Yasuyuki
Rakue, “Comparison of Four Health Systems: Cuba, China,
Japan, and the USA: an Approach to Reality”
Paul Farmer, “Global AIDS: New Challenges for Health and
Human Rights”
Stephen Faris, “Containment Strategy”
Matthew DeCamp, “Scrutinizing Global Short-Term Medical
Outreach”
Ethics Case: Cameron Page, “Hope” |
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SESSION
14:
Wednesday, 2/27
1:00-1:50 Presentation
2:00 - 2:50 (A)
3:00 - 3:50 (B)
4:00 – 4:50 (C) |
Money
and the Medical Profession
William May, “Money and the Medical Profession”
Kate T. Christensen, “Ethically Important Distinctions
Among Managed Care Organizations”
Anne E. Pereira and Steven D. Pearson, “Patient Attitudes
Toward Physician Financial Incentives”
Ethics Case |
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SESSION
15:
Wednesday, 3/5
1:00-3:00
2:00 - 2:50 (A)
3:00 - 3:50 (B)
4:00 – 4:50 (C)
QUIZ |
Drugs
Howard Brody, “The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Free
Market,” Ch. 3, in Hooked.
Dana Katz, Arthur Caplan, and Jon Merz, “All Gifts
Large and Small”
Daniel Carlat, “Dr. Drug Rep”
Ethics Case |
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