Health Care Reform: What Are the Ethical Stakes? (20)
Our nation has been engaged in a contentious debate over legislation to reform the health care system. Dr. John Vitaliti returns as my guest to discuss the ethical issues at the root of our current health care crisis. A subsequent podcast will look at the pros and cons of various legislative efforts. Theme Music: Gli [...]
Should Doctors Apologize? (19)
When medical errors happen, should doctors apologize to their patients? Doesn’t that idea simply guarantee a costly lawsuit? What are the ethical implications of all this? In this podcast, we discuss the ethics of apologies. My guest is Dr. John Vitaliti, a former practicing anesthesiologist, who studies the issues surrounding malpractice and tort reform. Source: [...]
Making Moral Decisions in Medicine
Our guest blogger this week is Matt Tabbut, a second-year med student (and Cedarville alumnus) at Chicago’s Rosalind Franklin University. At this stage of my medical education, I have begun to look at some practical ethics case studies. There are a few beacons, or waypoints, that I use to help guide me in making decisions. [...]
Dr. Death is on the Loose
On June 1st, Jack Kevorkian was released from prison, after serving eight years of a longer sentence for second-dgree murder. A participant in at least 130 assisted suicides during the 1990s, he is still unrepentant. Constrained by conditions of his parole, he can speak publicly about laws to allow doctors to assist in suicide, but [...]
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