Clinical Bioethics
Bernard W. Freedman JD, MPH has over twenty-five years of experience in health law and is formally trained in bioethicis, health law and human rights. He serves as consultant to patients, physicians and ethics committees regarding application of bioethical issues policies and legal requirements in medical decision making, most often in end of life/ critical care cases.
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Letting the Conscious Non-Terminal, Incompetent, Patient Die: Hold On a Minute - Not So Fast
It is an injustice to cause patients to unnecessarily prolong the process of dying. Actual futile care must be avoided. But it is equally an injustice to easily acquiesce to patient’s demands that my result in unnecessary death. On August 17, 2010 the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania...
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Early Withdrawal of Life Sustaining Treatment in Severe Traumatic Brain Injuries, by Bernard W. Freedman JD, MPH
CDC Statistics Traumatic Brain Injuries On August 29, 2011 the Canadian Medical Association published the findings of a multicenter cohort study evaluating the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for patients who had suffered a traumatic brain injury. This study is of particular interest...
Patient Access to Cancer Care and Proposed Medicare Budget Cuts - Press Release
July 27, 2011 ASCO Urges Policymakers to Protect Patient Access to Cancer Care from Debt Ceiling Negotiation Package The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO ) is deeply concerned about the proposed $3 billion in cuts to Medicare reimbursement as part of a debt ceiling negotiation...
End of Life Care: the Doctor-Patient Relathinship A Refusal to Communicate
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an article entitled: “ The Palliative Care Information Act in Real Life,” (NEJM 364;No.20 May 2011), regarding a New York statute that requires a physician to have discussions of end of life treatment options with the...
A Refusal to Communicate
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an article entitled: “ The Palliative Care Information Act in Real Life,” (NEJM 364;420 May 2011), regarding a New York statute that requires a physician to have discussions of end of life treatment options with the...
Rationing "scarce medical resources" and lying to the patient - do these go hand in hand? 7 comments
Rationing "scarce medical resources" and lying to the patient - do these go hand in hand? 7 comments Claudia Ruiz M.D • I don't think so, I'm from Mexico, and I have worked plenty with the mayan communities, they really don't have any acces to medicines o medical...
Rationing "scarce medical resources" and lying to the patient - do these go hand in hand? December 23, 2009 7 comments Follow Claudia Claudia Ruiz M.D • I don't think so, I'm from Mexico, and I have worked plenty with the mayan communities, they r
Rationing "scarce medical resources" and lying to the patient - do these go hand in hand? 7 comments Claudia Ruiz M.D • I don't think so, I'm from Mexico, and I have worked plenty with the mayan communities, they really don't have any acces to medicines o medical...
Rationing "scarce medical resources" and lying to the patient - do these go hand in hand? 7 comments
Rationing "scarce medical resources" and lying to the patient - do these go hand in hand? 7 comments Claudia Ruiz M.D • I don't think so, I'm from Mexico, and I have worked plenty with the mayan communities, they really don't have any acces to medicines o medical...
Rationing Medical Care Part II
Efforts to encourage (or compel) physicians to lie to their patients were faced years ago when “gag clauses” were inserted into contracts between HMO’s and contracted physicians. The gag clause established a contractual obligation on the part of the physician to withhold...
Rationing Medical Care Part II
Efforts to encourage (or compel) physicians to lie to their patients were faced years ago when “gag clauses” were inserted into contracts between HMO’s and contracted physicians. The gag clause established a contractual obligation on the part of the physician to withhold...
