Health Care Decisions and the "F" Word: Counseling Clients about Medical Futility
Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Format: Live Webinar
Duration: 90 minutes
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Sponsors
The American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging, Senior Lawyers Division and Center for Professional Development
1:00 PM-2:30 PM Eastern
12:00 PM-1:30 PM Central
11:00 AM-12:30 PM Mountain
10:00 AM-11:30 AM Pacific
Program Description
Recent cases involving brain dead patients and resulting disputes over continuing organ-sustaining treatments have reignited debate over the appropriate use of medical technologies. The family of Jahi McMath in Oakland, CA, fought to keep their daughter connected to a ventilator, while a hospital in Fort Worth, TX, sought to keep Marlise Muñoz, fourteen weeks pregnant, on a ventilator over the objection of her husband and family. For terminally ill patients who are not brain dead, a family's desire to "do everything possible" sometimes leads to insisting on medical interventions that medical professionals may deem inappropriate or "futile."
Objectives
- Provide you with an understanding of the range of policy and practice issues concerning medical futility
- Enable you to be accurate and supportive in counseling clients on these issues in the context of advance planning
- Enable you to be more effective in counseling and dispute resolution when conflicts arise in end-of-life decision-making concerning the limits of care
- The focus is not on litigation.
Program Faculty
- Robert L. Fine, MD, FACP, FAAHPM, Clinical Director, Office of Clinical Ethics and Palliative Care, Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, TX
- Bernard "Bud" Hammes, Ph.D, Director of Medical Humanities, Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation, La Crosse, WI
- Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD, Director, Health Law Institute & Associate Professor of Law, Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, MN
- Charles P. Sabatino, JD (Moderator), Director, ABA Commission on Law and Aging, Washington, DC
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