Ethics Consultation Services http://ethicsconsultation.net "providing ethics education globally" Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:13:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 What Ethical Framework can be used to ration ventilators in the COVID-19 Pandemic? http://ethicsconsultation.net/2020/03/what-ethical-framework-can-be-used-to-ration-ventilators-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/ Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:07:14 +0000 http://ethicsconsultation.net/?p=1555 Dr. Henry Silverman gave a presentation on the various ethics frameworks that can be used to ration ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic.  He discussed several ethical frameworks that included utilitarian, egalitarian, libertarian, and prioritarism. Using case studies, it appears that a utilitarian approach, in which one enhances the most lives saved, was favored above the […]

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]]> Henry Silverman responds to writing DNR orders for COVID-19 patients in a letter in the Washington Post http://ethicsconsultation.net/2020/03/henry-silverman-responds-to-dnr-order-issue-for-covid-19-patients-in-a-letter-in-the-washington-post/ Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:45:39 +0000 http://ethicsconsultation.net/?p=1550 Dr. Henry Silverman responded to the March 26 front-page article Hospitals debate do-not-resuscitate orders over fears for staffers’ health,” in his letter published in the Washington Post on March 30.

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]]> Ethics Consultation Services Gains Accreditation as an Authorized Provider of Continuing Education Units (CEUs) http://ethicsconsultation.net/2018/12/ethics-consultation-services-gains-accreditation-to-be-an-authorized-provider-of-continuing-education-units-ceus/ Wed, 26 Dec 2018 17:55:45 +0000 http://ethicsconsultation.net/?p=1451 Ethics Consultation Services, an organization directed by Dr. Henry Silverman, has been accredited as an Authorized Provider of Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET®). This organization successfully demonstrated our commitment to excellence in training and continuing education programs by our compliance with the ANSI®/IACET® Standard, which is […]

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]]> Webinar: Big Data and Social Research Ethics, Online 15.00-16.00, 27 October 2016 http://ethicsconsultation.net/2016/09/webinar-big-data-and-social-research-ethics-online-15-00-16-00-27-october-2016/ Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:54:34 +0000 http://ethicsconsultation.net/?p=1168 An online webinar regarding “Big Data and Social Research Ethics” will be held on 27 October 2016, at 1500 Eastern Standard Time. As mentioned by the UK Data Service, it appears that much of  social research is now devoted to big data in various forms: social media, administrative data, transaction records, geo-spatial data, and more. This […]

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]]> The Difficult Ethics of Organ Donations From Living Donors Who Cannot Give Direct Consent http://ethicsconsultation.net/2016/09/the-difficult-ethics-of-organ-donations-from-living-donors-who-cannot-give-direct-consent/ Sun, 11 Sep 2016 15:39:27 +0000 http://ethicsconsultation.net/?p=1123 A recent Wall Street Journal article discussed the issue of family consent for kidney donations from patients who lack decision making capacity (June 26, 2016).  For example,  a woman wanted to donate the kidney of her dying husband prior to withdrawing life-sustaining treatments that would lead to his death.  Donation after death was not possible, […]

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]]> Second Thoughts of an Animal Researcher http://ethicsconsultation.net/2016/09/second-thoughts-of-an-animal-researcher/ Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:24:41 +0000 http://ethicsconsultation.net/?p=1070 A recent story in the New York Times revealed the reflections of a researcher who had performed experiments on animals.  Please click here for the story. An interesting quote from the article is as follows:  “I know firsthand that “responsible” research is not enough. What we really need to examine is the very moral ground of […]

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]]> Factors Related to Discordance About Prognosis Between Physicians and Surrogate Decision Makers http://ethicsconsultation.net/2016/08/factors-related-to-discordance-about-prognosis-between-physicians-and-surrogate-decision-makers/ Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:44:36 +0000 http://ethicsconsultation.net/?p=1107 A recent article by Douglas White and colleagues determined the prevalence and factors related to discordance about prognosis between physicians and surrogates who are making decisions for critically ill patients (JAMA. 2016;315(19):2086-2094. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.5351).  It is commonly thought that the misperceptions about prognosis by such surrogates is often attributed to poor comprehension of information.  Physician-surrogate discordance about prognosis occurred […]

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]]> Public meeting to be held regarding standards of care research http://ethicsconsultation.net/2013/07/public-meeting-to-be-held-regarding-standard-of-care-research/ Mon, 22 Jul 2013 02:08:12 +0000 http://ethicsconsultation.net/?p=948 The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced a public meeting to be held on August 28, 2013, to seek public input and comment regarding what risks should be disclosed to potential research participants in the context of research studying one or more interventions that are used as standard of care treatment in the […]

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]]> Ethical and Professional Issues Reported by Medical Students http://ethicsconsultation.net/2011/10/ethical-and-professional-issues-reported-by-medical-students/ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:11:41 +0000 http://ethicsconsultation.net/?p=479 A recently published article in the Journal of Medical Ethics entitled “Through students’ eyes: ethical and professional issues identified by third-year medical students during clerkships”,  reported on the predominant ethical and professional issues cited by medical students.   Kaldjian and colleagues performed a content analysis of 272 Case Observation and Assessments written by  141 third-year medical […]

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]]> Ethics in the News http://ethicsconsultation.net/2010/12/ethics-in-the-news/ Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:00:00 +0000 http://ethicsconsultation.net/?p=559 Several recent news items worth mentioning: Eletronic Physicians Orders for End-of-Life Treatment States are creating electronic databases that will store physicians’ orders regarding the type of care patients want at the end of their lives. The goal is to make such orders more readily available to emergency workers, as paper based orders (including advance directives) […]

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