powered by Sounder Health equity is a topic featured frequently on this podcast. We have watched a renewed emphasis on healthcare disparities and health inequity with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the vaccines were rolled out, we watched once again as inequity reared its ugly head. Vulnerable populations were often late to receive […]
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powered by Sounder Evaluating patient capacity is a common issue in clinical medical ethics. How do we dow what’s best for patients and respect their autonomy while ensuring they are indeed able to make their own medical decisions.This situations often occur acutely with little time to deliberate. Prepare in advance by listening to this podcast
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In this episode I discuss an article entitled, “Disclosure of Individual Surgeon’s Performance Rates During Informed Consent.” This topic was discussed on Twitter and I decided to read more. The article presented a very comprehensive look at the issue and discussed the pros and cons of implementation. Overall, the data collection is generally poor quality
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Ethically Sourced is moving to its own show entitled, “Curbside Ethics”. This is a noun as well as a verb. In this episode, I discuss the revolutionary, new medication for Alzheimers Disease that was recently approved by the FDA, “aducanumab”. This medication brings into question multiple ethical issues. There are concerns about the research that
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This is the first official episode of Curbside Ethics, a podcast that helps clinicians provide ethical, equitable, culturally competent care to their patients. I discuss the dark humor that is so prevalent in healthcare culture. Why does it exist? What are some of the problems it can cause? How dark humor affect patients, students and
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Welcome to Curbside Ethics. I’m Steven Bradley, MD an Anesthesiolog ist and Clinical Medical Ethicist. As clinicians we are frequently faced with complex medical decision making related to medical ethics, health equity or culturally competent care. There is little formal education related to making these difficult decision. It is hard to learn and stay current
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