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Previous Journal Club Topics

2022

January: “Surrogate Decision Making for Unrepresented Patients”

February: “The Shared Decision-Making Continuum”

March: “Intersectionality in Clinical Medicine”

April: “Pediatric Authenticity”

May: “The Abusive Patient: Where Do You Draw the Line?”

2021

January: “When Decision-Makers Exclude Trainees from Patient Care”

February: “The Allegedly Abusive Surrogate"

March: “Shared Decision-Making and Health-Undermining Goals” 

April:“COVID Human Challenge Trials: Ethical Considerations”

May: “Addressing Pediatric Suffering”

June: “Difficult Discharge Decisions”

October: “Moral Distress”

November: “Requests for Nondisclosure”

December: “Pediatric Participation in Decision Making”

2020

January: “Medical Futility: A Closer Look”

February: “Health- Promoting Nudges”

March: “Artificial Intelligence in Medicine”

October: “When is a patient represented?”

November: “Advance Directives and Dementia”

December: “Real MD vs. WebMD: The Ethical Challenges of Patient SelfEducation”

2019

January: “Codes of Ethics - Use and Misuse”

February: "Making Decisions for Others"

March: "In Search of Safe Discharges"

May: "Addressing Ethical Conflict by Understanding  Moral Obligations & Communities"

June: "Disability and Quality of Life"

September: "Decision-Making Capacity"

October: "Ethics Issues in Caring for Undocumented Patients"

November: "Should We Move From Patient-Centered Care to Patient and Professional Centered Care"

December: “Contracts in the Provider-Patient Relationship”

2018 

January: “Abusive Patients – How Much is too Much?”

February: “The Downside of Being Social: When Boundaries Matter”

April: “Healthcare Practitioner Burnout & Suicide: The Problem & Some Interventions”

June: “Caring for the Homeless Among Us –  A Challenge for Healthcare Providers in LA”

September: “From Patient Waste to Research Samples”

October: “Code Status - 'Erring' on the Side of Life"

November: “Concerns with Electronic Medical Records"

December: "Perspectives on Non-Adherence"

2017

September: "The Ethical Challenges of Compassionate Use Programs for Experimental Drugs"

October: "Do Doctors and Nurses Have a Duty to Rescue?"

 

2016

January: "Do Physicians have Responsibility to Provide Recommendations Regarding Goals of Care to Surrogates of Dying Patients?"

February: "Physician-assisted Death"

March: "Ethics of Deactivating Cardiac Devices"

May: "Ethics of Patients Recording Clinical Encounters"

June: "Toward Better ICU use at the End of Life"

July: "Witness to Suffering: The Ethical Importance of Hearing Others’ Stories"

September: "The Goals of Ethics Consultation: Rejecting the Role of Ethics Police"

 

2015

January: "Concept of Vulnerability"

February: "Is Suffering the Enemy?"

March: "Personal Responsibility and Healthcare Rationing"

April: "Medical Futility in the Pediatric ICU"

June: "Professional Boundaries: physicians who give money to patients"

September: "Physicians as Surrogates for Unrepresented Patients"

October: "Illness and Empathy"

November: "Physician-Family-Child Relationship"

 

2014

October: "Obligations of Surgeons to Noncompliant Patients"

November: "Ethics of Responding to Ebola"

December: "Altruism, Gift Giving, and Reciprocity in Organ Donation"

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