Pediatric Ethics Podcast

In this episode, Dr. Tanya Arora leads a discussion focusing on medical improv.

In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Garrett is joined by Courtney Berrios and Kimberly Freeman. They will be discussing the topic of pediatric rare diseases and the development of a community-led research agenda for better understanding the needs and priorities of patients and families living with rare diseases. Click here to read Dr. Garrett's article focusing on Developing a community-led rare disease ELSI research agenda

In this episode, Dr. Betty Kassa, who will lead a discussion focusing on international medical care, and what being a practicing pediatric intensivist is like in Ethiopia.

In this episode, Dr. Ian Wolfe, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pediatric Ethics, moderates a discussion with Drs. Joseph Shapiro and Jeremy Garrett breaking down their recent article on decision-making in Pediatric Emergency Care from the pages of the Fall issue of JPE.

In this episode, Dr. Ian Wolfe leads a discussion focusing on the concept of a child's relational potential and the role that this concept might play in certain pediatric cases.

In this episode Dawn Hood-Patterson will talk with Joshua Morris, MDiv, PhD, BCC about moral injury. Dr. Morris will expand the definition of moral injury, once reserved for use with military personnel and service members, into healthcare and clinical settings. Dr. Morris will highlight way in which moral injury nuances our understanding of traumatic experiences. He will help us, fellow clinicians and the larger public, better honor the experience of those encountering moral injurious events.

Rev. Cody Sanders, PhD will delineate what providers and ethicists can learn about life and relationships from tending the corpse. Death is an unavoidable part of the human experience and Dr. Sanders will describe what professionals should consider when caring for the bodies of the dead and dying.

In this episode, Dr. Bryanna Moore and Dr. DeeJo Miller lead an interactive discussion focusing on Bryanna Moore's recent published article, "Exploring the Ethics of the Parental Role in Parent-Clinician Conflict"

On this episode, Brian Carter and Dawn Hood-Patterson will discuss the role of hope and spirituality in bioethics.

Intraprofessional disagreements about complex cases.

The zone of parental discretion: an ethical tool for dealing with disagreement between parents and doctors about medical treatment for a child.

Dr. Joanna Clark leads a discussion on dysthanasia.

Dr. Jane Lee, associate professor of pediatrics in the Medical College of Wisconsin's Complex Care department, discusses her new book Catastrophic Rupture: A Memoir of Healing.

Joseph Millum is the author of a new book about a new theory for bioethics. The volume offers a carefully argued, compelling theory of bioethics while eliciting practical implications for a wide array of issues including medical assistance-in-dying, the right to health care, abortion, animal research, and the definition of death. The authors’ dual value theory features mid-level principles, a distinctive model of moral status, a subjective account of well-being, and a cosmopolitan view of global justice. In addition to ethical theory, the book investigates the nature of harm and autonomous action, personal identity theory, and the “non-identity problem” associated with many procreative decisions.

Dr. Weisleder discusses the role that neurologists played in the eugenics movements of the twentieth century.

After her son was born with a life-threatening congenital heart condition, Wendy Hind, Ph.D., J.D., began using poetry and essay as a form of narrative medicine - it's her way of expressing herself and connecting to others through issues of health and healing. She is the founder and curator of #tinypoetryproject - short poems posted weekly as narrative medicine for the soul. Wendy is also a former university vice president, professor, policy advisor, and attorney. She has published health related poems and essays in several journals including, The Healing Muse, Blood and Thunder, and Hektoen International.

Dr. Carter discusses the ways words shape our perceptions of medical interventions, and why there are hesitations with immunization.

Dr. Angela Myers discusses whether or not children should receive the new COVID-19 vaccine.

Dr. Barbara Pahud discusses ethical questions concerning the COVID-19 vaccine(s) and children.

In this three-person panel, Shelby Rebeck MSN, RN, Dr. Jeremy Garrett, and Vanessa Watkins, MPH discuss how school nurses are handling COVID-19.