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Subject Doubling Down on Ethics, AI & Health Care; Physician Awards
Date September 14, 2023 6:00 PM
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Countering threats to academic freedom, AI & health care, nominiate a physician

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** May 18, 2023
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** What Remains of the Constitutional Right to Refuse Treatment?
Dobbs Decision Creates Opening for New Restrictions
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For decades, the Supreme Court has recognized an individual constitutional right to decline life-sustaining treatment, but last year’s Dobbs decision creates an opening for government attempts to impose new restrictions on end-of-life choices, writes Rebecca Dresser in the Hastings Center Report. Read more ([link removed]) .

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** Interested in Participating in Dementia Research?
Planning Could Reduce Barriers to Inclusion
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Many people living with or at risk for dementia are interested in taking part in research, but they face an ethical and a legal barrier: how to make their wishes known when they no longer have decisional capacity to give informed consent for participating. Advance planning for research is a promising strategy, write Nola M. Ries and Briony Johnston in Ethics & Human Research. Read more ([link removed]) .

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** AI in Medicine; Florida's Conscience Law
From Hastings Bioethics Forum
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“For Ethical Use of AI in Medicine, Don’t Overlook Maintenance and Repair.” AI has “tremendous potential to streamline care, identify high-risk patients, and augment processes of diagnosis and treatment, but this potential will not be realized without systems of maintenance and repair” to identify problems, including critical inequities, writes Kellie Owens. Read her essay ([link removed]) .

“Legalized Medical Discrimination Violates Medical Ethics.” A new Florida law shields health care providers, institutions, and insurers who decline to treat patients or refuse to pay for care when they have conscience-based objections. This permits discrimination against patients, writes Craig Klugman. Read his essay ([link removed]) .


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** Reimagining Healthcare Work, Repairing Healthcare Systems
Today! Researchers, Journalist, & Clinical Ethicist Discuss Real-World Actions
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How can we create meaningful change in a broken American healthcare system? Join us today at 2 pm for a webinar featuring insights from two studies of healthcare work during the pandemic. Researchers, a New Yorker journalist, and a clinical ethicist will discuss the future of healthcare work, including real-world steps healthcare organizations can take to better support their workers. Learn more and register ([link removed]) .


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