SIBL Science News
# Here is a news from SIBL New York. This is an occasion, we take a look around the SSH promotion in the Society, which differs absolutely from SSH integration into RTD.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (note: seating begins at 5:45 PM!)
Science, Industry & Business Library, 188 Madison at 34th St
Admission Free but seating limited: RSVP by Jan 17 to milano@nasw.org
Hippocrates
(NYPL Digital Library) Life and Death: confusing choices, troubling decisions of bioethics in 2008
Science Writers In New York invites you to hear legal and medical experts in discussion at SIBL.
When complex illness forces patients, family members and caregivers to confront difficult options under great stress, bioethicists play a prominent, expanding role in facilitating resolution. One unusual approach is using specially trained Bioethics Mediators.
Four experienced panelists offer behind-the-scenes views of how one bioethics mediation team handles converging medical, legal, and emotional factors of thorny dilemmas like these:
an advanced Alzheimer's patient never wanted to be dependent on artificial life-sustaining methods. Can his family withhold them?
religious strictures lead a patient to resist recommended treatments. What is the health care provider's responsibility?
the parents of a young woman with a life-threatening illness can't agree on a course of immediate treatment. How can they be helped towards a decision?
a cancer patient hasn't responded to standard treatments. An experimental drug promises better results but is unproven. Can the patient and family make an informed choice?
the family of a terminally ill patient doesn't grasp doctors' repeated explanations and keeps asking the same questions repeatedly. Who can help them understand?
The panelists are
Nancy Dubler, LLB, Professor of Bioethics & Director, Division of Bioethics, Montefiore Medical Center
Gary Kalkut, MD, Vice President & Senior Medical Director, Montefiore Medical Center
Carol B. Liebman, Clinical Professor, Columbia Law School; co-author "Bioethics Mediation" (2004); Director, Columbia Law School Mediation Clinic
Lynn Richmond, NP, Director of Clinical Affairs, Montefiore Medical Center
Note: In 1978, Montefiore Medical Center established a separate Bioethics Division and one of the nation's first programs of Certified Bioethics Mediation.
seating limited,
RSVP by Jan 17 to Carol Milano
milano@nasw.org
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