Medical Ethical Issues — Right Choices, Legal Answers Audio Conference
  Recorded March 24, 2004

Faculty: Alan Steinberg, Phil Zarone & Monica Hanslovan

It quickly became a national event, covered in every local paper and on national news. Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who has been in a persistent vegetative state for a number of years, became the subject of a very public and tragic dispute between her husband and her parents, and between the state courts and the legislature. The dispute: whether to maintain Ms. Schiavo on a feeding tube.

Hospitals deal with difficult issues like this all the time, but the Terri Schiavo case is a strong reminder to all hospitals of the need to have policies and procedures in place to handle these matter – ethically, operationally and legally.

Alan, Phil and Monica discuss and provide:

• An update on the Terri Schiavo matter
• The key legal and practical principles involved in end-of-life care decision-making
• Guidance concerning an important area being discussed by many hospital medical ethics committees: a Futile Care Policy
• The legal issues involved with appropriate pain management – the movement to provide better palliative care and actions being taken against physicians' DEA certificates and licenses by the federal government
• An update on the Oregon physician assisted suicide statute – lessons learned
• Practical, legal guidance for how to deal with the questionably competent patient and when to seek a guardianship

This audio CD is particularly pertinent for ethics committee members, physicians, patient advocates, risk managers and legal counsel. Materials provided include a policy on Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatments.

Audio CD: $225

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