Ethics Center Journal Club
Upcoming Journal Club
November: “Moral Dimensions of Trainee Participation in Patient Care”
Previous Journal Club Topics
2024
- January: “Focus on the Family: A Case Example of End-of-Life Care for an Older LGBT Veteran”
- February: “Responding to Cultural Limitations on Patient Autonomy”
- March: “Handling Suspected Abuse in Geriatric Patients”
- April: “Do Surrogates Have a Right to Refuse Pain Medications for Incompetent Patients?”
- May: “Ethical Obligations around Discharge”
- June: “Advance Directives and Dementia”
- September: “Parents Who Do Their Own Research: Pediatric Decision-Making, Trust, and Vaccine Hesitancy”
- October: The Ethics of “Difficult” Patients
2023
- February: “The Capacity to Designate a Surrogate is Distinct from Decisional Capacity”
- March: “How Should Clinicians Address Parental False Beliefs Generated by Denial or Grief?”
- April: “Discharging to the Street: When Patients Refuse Medically Safer Options”
- May: “The Perils of Health Misinformation”
- August: “Exploring the Ethics of the Parental Role in Parent-Clinician Conflict”
- November: “Smuggled Doughnuts and Forbidden Fried Chicken: Addressing Tensions around Family and Food Restrictions in Hospitals”
- December: “Ethical Considerations for Cardiac Surgical Interventions in Children with Trisomy 13 and Trisomy 18”
2022
- January: “Surrogate Decision Making for Unrepresented Patients”
- February: “The Shared Decision-Making Continuum”
- March: “Intersectionality in Clinical Medicine”
- April: “Pediatric Authenticity”
- May: “The Abusive Patient: Where Do You Draw the Line?”
- September: "Rethinking Disability: The Social Model of Disability and Chronic Disease"
- October: “Bodily Integrity and the Care of Persons Experiencing Homelessness”
- November: “A Clinician’s Approach to Clinical Ethical Reasoning”
2021
- January: “When Decision-Makers Exclude Trainees from Patient Care”
- February: “The Allegedly Abusive Surrogate"
- March: “Shared Decision-Making and Health-Undermining Goals”
- April:“ COVID Human Challenge Trials: Ethical Considerations”
- May: “Addressing Pediatric Suffering”
- June: “Difficult Discharge Decisions”
- October: “Moral Distress”
- November: “Requests for Nondisclosure”
- December: “Pediatric Participation in Decision Making”
2020
- January: “Medical Futility: A Closer Look”
- February: “Health- Promoting Nudges”
- March: “Artificial Intelligence in Medicine”
- October: “When is a patient represented?”
- November: “Advance Directives and Dementia”
- December: “Real MD vs. WebMD: The Ethical Challenges of Patient SelfEducation”
2019
- January: “Codes of Ethics - Use and Misuse”
- February: "Making Decisions for Others"
- March: "In Search of Safe Discharges"
- May: "Addressing Ethical Conflict by Understanding Moral Obligations & Communities"
- June: "Disability and Quality of Life"
- September: "Decision-Making Capacity"
- October: "Ethics Issues in Caring for Undocumented Patients"
- November: "Should We Move From Patient-Centered Care to Patient and Professional Centered Care"
- December: “Contracts in the Provider-Patient Relationship”
2018
- January: “Abusive Patients – How Much is too Much?”
- February: “The Downside of Being Social: When Boundaries Matter”
- April: “Healthcare Practitioner Burnout & Suicide: The Problem & Some Interventions”
- June: “Caring for the Homeless Among Us – A Challenge for Healthcare Providers in LA”
- September: “From Patient Waste to Research Samples”
- October: “Code Status - 'Erring' on the Side of Life"
- November: “Concerns with Electronic Medical Records"
- December: "Perspectives on Non-Adherence"
2017
- September: "The Ethical Challenges of Compassionate Use Programs for Experimental Drugs"
- October: "Do Doctors and Nurses Have a Duty to Rescue?"
2016
- January: "Do Physicians have Responsibility to Provide Recommendations Regarding Goals of Care to Surrogates of Dying Patients?"
- February: "Physician-assisted Death"
- March: "Ethics of Deactivating Cardiac Devices"
- May: "Ethics of Patients Recording Clinical Encounters"
- June: "Toward Better ICU use at the End of Life"
- July: "Witness to Suffering: The Ethical Importance of Hearing Others’ Stories"
- September: "The Goals of Ethics Consultation: Rejecting the Role of Ethics Police"
2015
- January: "Concept of Vulnerability"
- February: "Is Suffering the Enemy?"
- March: "Personal Responsibility and Healthcare Rationing"
- April: "Medical Futility in the Pediatric ICU"
- June: "Professional Boundaries: physicians who give money to patients"
- September: "Physicians as Surrogates for Unrepresented Patients"
- October: "Illness and Empathy"
- November: "Physician-Family-Child Relationship"
2014
- October: "Obligations of Surgeons to Noncompliant Patients"
- November: "Ethics of Responding to Ebola"
- December: "Altruism, Gift Giving, and Reciprocity in Organ Donation"