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Join the Rural Health Information Hub as they talk with Stephanie Larson, an Associate with the Institute of Ethics at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and lecturer in the English department at Case Western Reserve University, and Devora Shapiro, Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, about ethical issues in rural healthcare and the principles and practices that can be used to address them. https://ow.ly/uRyg50UmAC1 #ruralhealth

The fifth address of our upcoming conference, The Future of Health: Faith, Ethics, and Our MedTech World, will be delivered by Farr Curlin, MD. Register: https://lnkd.in/g_FAJ3gq "The Way of Medicine for Christians" What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? In this talk, Dr. Farr Curlin argues that the profession of medicine is caught between two rival accounts of medicine. On what he and Christopher Tollefsen call “the provider of services model,” clinicians eschew any claim to know what is good for a patient and instead offer an array of “healthcare services” for the sake of the patient’s subjective well-being. Against this trend, Curlin will argue that practitioners should recover what he and Tollefsen call the Way of Medicine, which offers physicians both a path out of the provider-of-services model and also the moral resources necessary to sustain medicine as a practice devoted to healing. Dr. Curlin will explain the Way of Medicine and consider how Christianity affirms and elevates medicine, rightly understood, as a sacred practice that participates in, without presuming to displace, God’s healing of the world.

Beyond the data, many medical ethicists recognize that the principles of beneficence and respect for patients as whole persons require physicians to do more than attend to the details of physiological and anatomical derangements. Spirituality and religion are essential to many patients’ identities as persons. Patients (and their families) experience illness, healing, and death as whole persons. Ignoring the spiritual aspects of their lives and identities is not respectful, and it divorces medical practice from a fundamental mode of patient experience and coping. Promoting the good of patients requires attention to their notion of the highest good. Respecting patients as persons demands attention to their spiritual needs. https://lnkd.in/guVNaEGJ

Diversity in #ClinicalTrials is not just a matter of fairness; it’s a scientific necessity. Without diverse representation, the effectiveness of treatments for all populations remains uncertain. GO read our latest blog: https://lnkd.in/er2De538 #DEI #GreenphireMeansGo Jaleeysa King

Don't miss this month's Organizational Ethics Consortium, "Market Medicine? How Money is Changing the Experience of Medicine, and What Practitioners and Organizations Can Do About It" on April 26th. Register here to receive the Zoom details: https://lnkd.in/edbW6uVi Some observers have argued that present day America is not just a society making use of a market #economy, but in fact a “market society” where all individuals and institutions are forced into cutthroat competition for #profits and survival. This situation, if real, will inevitably shape #healthcare organizations, and within them, interpersonal interactions like those between #patients and their #caregivers. These interactions might be forced into transactional, impersonal modes that lead to widespread experiences of moral injury, burnout, loneliness and distrust. And indeed, these experiences seem to be on the rise amongst medical practitioners. Some have talked about the moral crisis of American doctors. This panel will examine the crisis through theoretical, clinical and ethical lenses, asking how it is manifesting, what is causing it, and what we might do about it.

Our editorial in the NZMJ outlines why ethnicity should and must be used as a marker of need (and targeting of services) in Aotearoa. Reject the ugly rhetoric that is an affront on scientific evidence and high quality medical practice! https://lnkd.in/gyksAnQ6

Want to explore what it takes to produce and disseminate research in a way that allows others to have trust and confidence in the methods used and the findings that result? Do not miss this upcoming seminar on July 29th! #research #integrity #publishing #ethics

Excellent article, grateful the Lancet published this. Shameful that any medical organization would remain silent in the face of these atrocities. Complete obliteration of a healthcare system, murder, torture, kidnapping of healthcare workers, killing of patients in hospital beds. All of this doesn’t move the needle for the CMA to break its silence. “Historical reflection on leading medical institutions' choices to remain silent during past atrocities, including the Holocaust, teaches us that omission and apathy within the medical profession enable institutional forces that perpetuate injustices, including the dehumanisation and racism on which genocide depends.7 As the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg and more recent scenes of physicians' participation in US Government torture programmes at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere have made clear, medical doctors are no less vulnerable than others to being absorbed into violent, nationalistic ideologies and misusing their training and power to inflict suffering rather than to support care and justice.” https://lnkd.in/eUE3FDXn

“For the past 7 months, the world has been witnessing the murder of health workers, as well as their abduction, torture, execution, and the dumping of their bodies in mass graves;1 killing of patients in their hospital beds; deliberate bombing of hospitals and clinics; targeted destruction of health and sanitation infrastructure; blockades to humanitarian aid and essential medications during a historic famine manufactured to serve as a weapon of war; and the infliction of conditions designed to be incompatible with life on Palestinians in Gaza. These facts have been documented in orders issued by the International Court of Justice on Jan 26, 2024, and March 28, 2024, and in a detailed report entitled Anatomy of a Genocide, published on March 25, 2024, by the UN rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.2, 3, 4 Addressed to the UN Human Rights Council, the report concluded that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel's commission of genocide is met”.4” #Healthcare #HumanRights #Palestine

The recording of "Reflections from an Imperfect Art: Jazz, Health Justice, and the Moral Practice of Medicine" with lecturer Patrick T. Smith, PhD is now available on our YouTube channel. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/dphfrB2H #HMSBioethics #jazz #healthjustice #ethics #medicine #health #healthequity #bioethics