Author / Danielle Lehman
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The Case of Nancy Cruzan
A thirty-year-old accident victim suffered lack of oxygen to her brain for six to twenty minutes. She was in a persistently comatose and vegetative state, sustained by a gastronomy feeding tube, although her respiration and circulation were normal. The opinion of medical professionals was that she could live thirty-years. She now lies in a Missouri state hospital at the state’s expense.
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After the Heart Attack – Sister Rosemary Flanigan, PhD
In early 2012, at age 85, Dr. Rosemary Flanigan suffered and survived a heart attack. Fifteen years earlier, Dr. Flanigan wrote: “It makes me mad…
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Caring Conversations – Detail
Caring Conversations The Caring Conversations® Workbook will guide you, your family and your friends through the process of advance care planning with a highly individualized focus. This workbook is available in English or Spanish and includes a Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare Decisions form and a Healthcare Directives form for your use. Download copies… -
Will a ‘vaccine passport’ be required to travel? As idea grows, travelers have mixed reactions
Will a ‘vaccine passport’ be required to travel? As idea grows, travelers have mixed reactions March 30, 2021 Featuring Terry Rosell, PhD Fox4KC News Terry Rosell was interviewed by Kaci Jones, FOX4, about vaccine passports. View More -
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Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2021
The pandemic brought America face-to-face with the impacts of disparities in race, class and ethnicity in health and healthcare. Inadequately resourced public health and disaster response systems exacerbated injustices upon the poor, elderly and communities of color. The economic crisis worsened longstanding inequities.
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To Feed or Not to Feed?
That’s the question facing medical professionals and families about the use of artificial nutrition and hydration.
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KC Regional Hospital Ethics Committee Consortium: 25 Years of Doing Ethics
Rosemary Flanigan responds to questions on what it means to “do ethics,” how hospitals responded to the creation of ethics committees, accomplishments of the Ethics Committee Consortium, and how the problems it addresses have changed over the years.
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From POLST to TPOPP in California and Beyond
POLST coalitions (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) are developing across the country.
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Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has informed our collective conscience about what ought not to be, what we should be doing more of, and the need to keep alive the realities of what we have endured and too many have suffered.
