Ethics Grand Rounds, which are open to the entire medical center, are conducted monthly as a forum for the discussion of ethical issues in healthcare that arise in the Medical Center or in the larger community. Listed below are topics addressed at past rounds.
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The Role of Ethics in Health Care
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The Ethics of a Marketplace for Organs
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Autonomy Run Amok
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The Ethics of Palliation and Palliative Care
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The Ethics of Organ Donation After Cardiac Death
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The Ethics of Medical Education
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The Ethics of Saying, “I’m Sorry”
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The Ethics of Using Placebos in the Routine Care and Treatment of Children
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The Ethics of Physician-Industry Interaction
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The Ethics of Health Care During Pandemics
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The Ethics of Futility: How Do We Define It? How Do We Identify It?
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How Do We Address It?
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The Ethics of Decision Making About Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
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The Ethics of Breaking Bad News
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The Ethics of IVF-Induced High-Order Multiple Pregnancies
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The Ethics of HIV Testing
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The Ethics of Conscientious Objection in Healthcare
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The Ethics of Resource Allocation During Pandemics
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The Ethics of Pain Management
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Ethical Choices in a New Orleans Hospital: What Would You Have Done?
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The Ethics of Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval
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Why Do Patients Need Professional Advocates?
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The Ethics of Decisional Capacity
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The Ethics of Religion-Based Refusal of Medical Treatment
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The Ethics of Vegetative States and Other Disorders of Consciousness
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The Ethics of Pharmaceutical Detailing
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Patient Satisfaction and Patient Care: Are These Goals Ever in Tension?
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Growth-Attenuation Therapy: The Ashley Treatment
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The Ethics of Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials
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A Right to Die: The Dax Cowart Case
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Is This Treatment Justified? Resource Allocation in the Trauma Setting
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The Ethics of the Electronic Medical Record
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The Ethics of Assigning Kidneys
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If We Know Medical Futility When We See It, What Do We Do About It?
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Should Women Be Doctors?
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The Ethics of State Intervention When Children Are Morbidly Obese
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The Ethics of Children As Organ Donors and Survivor Siblings
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Disney in the Nursery: The Ethics of Commercialization in the Clinical Setting
As an additional resource, the Bioethics Library Link provides medical center staff with online access to a selection of articles related to each month’s grand rounds topic. These articles are available for download and remain posted for six months.