Clinical Ethics: Challenges During the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Pandemic Presented by Robert L. Fine, MD, FACP, FAAHPM, and Rabbi Mark Washofsky, Ph.D. Moderated by Joshua Holo, Ph.D.
May 31, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Is it ethical to deny treatment to one patient to help another patient? Is it ethical to alter current CPR standards of care if doing so leads to worse outcomes? The novel corona virus (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19), has led to new ways of managing respiratory failure and hopefully creative, better methods for developing and manufacturing vaccines. The pandemic has also created novel ethical challenges that must be faced at the bedside by physicians, nurses, other health care professionals, patients, and families. Those same ethical challenges must also be grappled with by the polis, the body politic.
To provide perspective on these ethical challenges, we will begin with a brief exploration of the pandemic in the United States. Doctor Fine and Rabbi Washofsky will then compare the Hippocratic and contemporary clinical ethics traditions with the Jewish legal tradition to suggest answers the questions above. The program will then open for dialogue with attendees in hopes of broadening community understanding of the ethical challenges, maintaining hope for the future, and promoting the social solidarity necessary to turn back the pandemic, saving as many lives as possible.
More Info: http://huc.edu/registration-clinical-ethics-challenges-during-covid-19-sars-cov-2-pandemic
Is it ethical to deny treatment to one patient to help another patient? Is it ethical to alter current CPR standards of care if doing so leads to worse outcomes? The novel corona virus (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19), has led to new ways of managing respiratory failure and hopefully creative, better methods for developing and manufacturing vaccines. The pandemic has also created novel ethical challenges that must be faced at the bedside by physicians, nurses, other health care professionals, patients, and families. Those same ethical challenges must also be grappled with by the polis, the body politic.
To provide perspective on these ethical challenges, we will begin with a brief exploration of the pandemic in the United States. Doctor Fine and Rabbi Washofsky will then compare the Hippocratic and contemporary clinical ethics traditions with the Jewish legal tradition to suggest answers the questions above. The program will then open for dialogue with attendees in hopes of broadening community understanding of the ethical challenges, maintaining hope for the future, and promoting the social solidarity necessary to turn back the pandemic, saving as many lives as possible.
More Info: http://huc.edu/registration-clinical-ethics-challenges-during-covid-19-sars-cov-2-pandemic
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