On Tuesday, Feb 5, from noon to 1:00 PM, Children’s Mercy Bioethics Center is hosting a webinar on the topic: "Does the Concept of 'Medical Futility' Help Clinicians?"
Speakers:
- Robert D. Truog, MD, Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesiology & Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
- Robert L. Fine, MD, Clinical Director, Office of Clinical Ethics and Palliative Care, Baylor Health Care System
- Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Director of the Health Law Institute and an Associate Professor of Law at Hamline University.
Should doctors and nurses be obligated to provide treatments that they deem futile? How precise must determinations of futility be in order to ground unilateral decisions to withhold life-sustaining treatment? What rights do patients and families have to determine what treatments should or should not be provided? What should the law or public policy say about such decisions?
These three experts will briefly explain their own approach to futility cases, respond to each other, and take questions from the audience.
The webinar is free but you must register here.
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