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Featured Article Summary
Poverty – Not a Justification for Banning Physician-Assisted Death
Ethics After Hours
Podcast
White Coat Black Art
Seniors tell Dr. Brian Goldman what it’s really like to live in long-term care (Encore)
Fireside Chat
Ethical Issues in Long Term Care
Judy Aymar, Social Worker (retired) with experience in Long Term Care and Acute Care discusses the ethical issues of moving into a long term care facility and living at risk.
Ethics After Hours
A woman must cope with her brother urging to put their mother battling with dementia in a facility and her father who is committed to keeping his wife home.
Featured Article Summary
When Societal Structural Issues Become Patient Problems: The Role of Clinical Ethics Consultation
When Societal Structural Issues Become Patient Problems – Article Summary
Ethics After Hours
Dr. Lisa Sanders crowd sources diagnoses for mysterious and rare medical conditions in this documentary series based on her New York Times Magazine column.
Fireside Chat
Ethics in Health Care Leadership
Newsletter
The Value of Place by Dr. Christy Simpson and lots of other good updates!
NSHEN Fall Newsletter – Conference Updates and Much More!
Ethics After Hours
Check out our new Ethics After Hours review!
Wondery Podcast
We’re at our most vulnerable when we go to our doctors. We trust the person at the other end of that scalpel. We trust the hospital. We trust the system.
Bioethics Book Club
New Book Review
Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?
When patients go to the doctor, Ofri writes, they’re inclined to tell the “story” of their illness, from beginning to end, while doctors are trained to look for the “chief complaint.” Little wonder, then, that research shows “doctors typically interrupt patients within 12 seconds.”
Plain Language Definitions – Ethics Health Care Terms
Straightforward Definitions of Terms in Health Ethics
Talking about values and principles in health care ethics can be confusing, especially if some of the words are unfamiliar. NSHEN created a plain language definitions document which have short definitions to help make it clearer what some of the words that we use in ethics work mean.
Case Database Website
We recently updated our Case Database with new cases on a variety of topics.
Check out the case website here
NSHEN Health Ethics Case Database
Ethics NSHA Ethics Support website now available!
Requesting Ethics Support across Nova Scotia Health Authority Zones is now available….
NSHEN has a library of new release fiction and non-fiction books and audiobooks available for reserving.
We have a variety of subjects and authors to choose from.
You can view our complete listing here
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