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TPOPP Resources

The Transportable Physician Orders for Patient Preferences (TPOPP) initiative is designed to translate patient preferences into medical orders.

PAINS-KC offers a strong patient voice to help inform research and the development of patient-centered pain policy and educational programming and to help raise awareness of chronic pain in the KC metro area.

Caring Conversations

Our popular Caring Conversations resources and workbook will guide you and your family through the process of Advanced Care Planning.

Workplace Programs

Our workplace programs are a benefit to employees who inevitably find themselves caring for both elderly parents at the same time of other generations of family.

Healthcare Resource Assistance

Our staff is ready to help with resource collection for individuals, educational institutions, healthcare providers or even advocacy groups.

e-Preferences Quick Start

Our Conversation Starter Questions are designed to help you begin thinking of a few of the common topics for your upcoming discussions with loved ones.

EVENTS

Follow our event calendar for ongoing lectures discussing the latest topics in healthcare from patient-centered medicine to affordable care to end-of-life planning.

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Live Lectures

Our monthly live lectures on Facebook connect you to healthcare experts and authors discussing healthcare policy and how to support a loved ones end-of-life preferences.

Annual Dinner

Join us each year at our Annual Dinner and Symposium as our speakers explore patient centered healthcare solutions and enhancements in end-of-life planning.

Flanigan Lecture

At the Flanigan Lecture on August 7, 2018, Dr. Steven Miles questions, given what we know now, ought parents allow kids to play collision sports

Case Studies

Case studies provide a roadmap for decision-making in future cases, help drive the development of new analysis and thought about complex medical and moral dilemmas.

Aging Resources

These resources will help you plan for an aging population and the aspects of life including healthcare, caregiving, housing, shopping and driving.

Chronic Pain

These resources help us work to change the way chronic pain is perceived, judged and treated.

End of Life Resources

These resources and interviews help you navigate the complex healthcare system for living wills, durable powers of attorney and concerns about care outside of hospital.

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Center for Practical Bioethics

KC bioethicist: Human gene editing has potential for good, but proceed with caution Human Gene Editing: An Interview with KMBC
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The case involving a Chinese scientist who announced he edited genetic material in twin baby girls is stirring up concern among the scientific community in Kansas City.

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@PracBioethics bioethicist @tarrisrosell expresses concern about unintended consequences of gene editing in @KMBZradio interview.
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8. Exclusive poll: We want to live longer, but not to 100 https://t.co/jcxKWlwK2L #axiosam

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Please consider supporting our mission on GIVING TUESDAY! Your support also allows us to continue our legacy work in end-of-life decision making.
On a PERSONAL level, we guide patients, families and clinicians grappling with heartbreaking choices. On the PROFESSIONAL level, ...

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Conversation Guides for Families Over the Holidays “How do we start a conversation with our parents about Advance Care Directives?”
CONVERSATION GUIDES -
https://practicalbioethics.org/resources/caring-conversations.html
#advancecaredirectives #caringconversations #advancecareplanning

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Center for Practical Bioethics Please SHARE our Family Healthcare Conversation Guides to friends gathering on Thanksgiving. THANK YOU!!!!
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Thank you so much to those of you who've chosen to designate the Center for Practical Bioethics as the beneficiary of your Amazon shopping! It really makes a difference! https://t.co/Cacy1K4Ym7

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As The Opioid Backlash Grows, Sickle Cell Patients Fear They'll Lose Critical Pain Treatment KCUR 89.3 discusses the problems severe chronic pain patients face in obtaining effective treatment… (interview and resources links below)
KCUR INTERVIEW -
http://www.kcur.org/post/opioid-backlash-grows-sickle-cell-patients-fear-theyll-lose-critical-pain-treatment#stream/0
CHRONIC PAIN RESOURCES -
https://www.practicalbioethics.org/resources/chronic-pain-resources.html
#chronicpain #pain
Long before Eric Kirkwood of Kansas City, Kansas, had his ...

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@kcur @kcurCST addresses problem severe chronic pain patients face in obtaining effective treatment - the same problem faced by participants in @pracbioethics PAINS-KC.
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Practical Bioethics: Film Series: Frankenstein Asks Us to Ponder What Is Monstrous Frankenstein typifies our perennial worries about the dangers of human hubris in pursuit of scientific knowledge and control over the natural world… (read blog post)
Frankenstein
Thursday, October 18, 2018
7:00pm
Tivoli Cinemas
https://practicalbioethics.blogspot.com/2018/10/film-series-frankenstein-asks-us-to.html
#geneediting
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Film Series: Frankenstein Asks Us to Ponder What Is Monstrous This year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus. The 1931 Universal Studios’ film adaptation of Frankenstein brought Shelly’s story to a mass audience. The mad Dr. Frankenstein, consumed with the desire ...

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Film Series: Watching Big Fish Next to My Mother in the Hospital Now, this is an interesting coincidence, as I was watching “Big Fish” on Amazon Video whilst visiting my mother during her last week in this world. I was summoned to Portland by my physician brother who told me that my ...

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Film Series: Big Fish Emphasizes the Importance of Communication Dying is hard work. Preparing to die is hard work. Watching someone you love die is hard work. It is the hardest work a family does. Want to know another thing that can be hard work in a family?Communication.Big Fish ...