Case 12 (29 Feb 12)

Colleen, Katie M., Catilin:  please post your discussion questions here.

Case 19 followup (29 Feb 12)

Confidentiality (29 Feb 12)

Post your questions, comments, and observations about the tensions in confidentiality, beneficence, and nonmaleficence.

Global Research (29 Feb 12)

Comments here about what you've read and/or what we discuss in class.

Current Events Feb/Mar 2012

*new* 22Feb12 burn pain & recovery
A long story, but well worth it, about a solider who was burned in Afghanistan and his recovery.  The focus of the story is the man, but also a treatment for pain.   You'll have a better sense of the experience of severe burns, the treatments, including many surgeries, and especially the mental fortitude necessary to survive. http://m.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201202/burning-man-sam-brown-jay-kirk-gq-february-2012

Pay it forward:  a chain of altruism in kidney donations
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/health/lives-forever-linked-through-kidney-transplant-chain-124.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2

Informed Consent (22Feb12)

Comment on your readings for this week regarding informed consent.  Do you read the forms at the doctor's office or hospital?  Are you really informed?  What values underlie informed consent?  Why is it important to protect informed consent.  How is informed consent related to autonomy and paternalism?

Health Professionalism (15Feb12)

Students:  post comments about how nurses & doctors & other health professionals ought to behave.  Should they be held to higher moral standards than other people?  Explain.  Should doctors etc. take oaths before they practice?  Which oaths, saying what?  Why?  Are there better and worse ways for health professionals to treat patients?  Explain.

You don't have to answer all of these questions -- start a thread on something you find interesting, or continue the discussion on something someone else posted.

Case 8 Nurse & Informed Consent (22Feb12)

Brittany's group post discussion questions here.

Case 25 Anacephalic Newborn (15Feb12)

Katie's group post discussion questions here.

Panicola's Catholic Teaching on care for the dying (by 8 Feb)

Feel free to comment on the reading I sent on 1 Feb regarding Catholic teaching about care for the dying (what's obligatory, what's not, Principle of Double-Effect, etc.).