Author / Monica Delles
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Protect Your Family Before the Phone Rings
Her father remained in a persistent vegetative state for the next 12 years, while Monica and her brothers wished to request a DNR, but their stepmother had apposing deeply religious views. Monica Delles, Communications and Website Coordinator at the Center, requests you complete your advance directive because the end of your life could be the end of your family without it.
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Flanigan Lecture 2024
Monday, September 30, 2024
“Will AI Health Apps Make Us Healthier?” is the topic of the Center’s 30th Annual Rosemary Flanigan Lecture on September 30, 2024. The lecture, presented by Anita Ho, bioethicist, author, and clinical professor, will weigh the ethical pros and cons of AI in personal healthcare. Attend in-person in Kansas City or virtually on YouTube. -
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Ryan Pferdehirt Featured in Pronatalism News Story
A recent story on NBC NOW highlights Ryan Pferdehirt, D.Bioethics, HEC-C, for his thoughts on pronatalism.
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June 25 2024 Email Newsletter
In this issue, the Center announces that the 30th Annual Flanigan Lecture will be “Leaving Patients to Their Own Devices: Will 24/7 AI Health Apps Make Us Healthier?” given by Anita Ho, PhD, on September 30, 2024. A link to our June issue of the Ethics Dispatch on ECMO and Ethics and a blog on employer-supported professional development by Odessa Sawyer, MSW are highlighted in this issue.
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Ethics Dispatch June 2024
The hot topic of ECMO and Ethics is discussed in this Month’s Ethics Dispatch. Other sections include Bioethics In the News, a Case Study and Ethical Musing.
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Employer-Supported Professional Development: A Personal Perspective
Being new to the nonprofit sector, Odessa Sawyer, MSW, writes this blog sharing a fresh perspective on how the for-profit and nonprofit sectors compete for quality employees regarding professional development.
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Case Study – ECMO and Ethics
The hospital team understand the importance ECMO has in keeping Thad alive and giving hope to the family but are concerned about its continuation as they do not known when a heart transplant will become available.
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May 21 2024 Email Newsletter
In this issue, the Center announces a new partnership with Dr. Gloria Thomas Anderson to support advance care planning in the African-American communities nationally, we provide an update on Dr. Blacksher’s work in addressing health inequities, and more.
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Case Study – Moral Culpability for Respecting Patients’ Autonomy
This patient has a long history of IV drug abuse but communicates to the health team that his recent hospitalization has brought some clarity in that regard, and he vows to “give up doing drugs.”
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Case Study – Decisional Capacity of the Patient’s Surrogate
With an adult daughter saying “No” to a trach and PEG and a DPOA spouse of questionable capacity what should the medical team do?
