Listen to a new Clinical Ethics podcast
Date published:
14 Jun 2018
The new Pomegranate Health podcast centres around two provocative case studies in clinical ethics. The first describes a three year old boy with a severe neurodegenerative disorder, whose parents are desperate to try an expensive experimental drug. The second is about a man ravaged by bowel cancer who has spent months on life-sustaining care.
As medicine becomes more sophisticated, such dilemmas in are becoming more common. There are questions about quality of life and best interests of the patient. Questions about cognitive competence to make such decisions for oneself. Or questions about equitable distribution of limited resources.
The discussion was recorded at the RACP Congress in May and was hosted by members of the College Ethics Committee.
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