Offering a composite picture of someone with a drug addiction is not easy. It is not specific to gender, age, income, education, ethnicity, or geography. In this second episode on addiction and medically supervised injection rooms, we go to Melbourne Australia and speak to health care leaders there, on their experience with these programs. Again, […] The post Addiction and Trust: Part II from Melbourne appeared first on Mission Network.

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Addiction and Trust: Part II from Melbourne

Harm reduction programs like needle exchange programs or medically supervised injection sites aim to a) respond to the addiction health issues of those who are dependent on injection drugs, and b) respond to the broader public health impact of addiction on a community such as a high amount of drug overdose or the transmission of […] The post Harm Reduction: Safe Injection Sites appeared first on Mission Network.

Harm Reduction: Safe Injection Sites

Today, tough choice healthcare ethics dilemmas are discussed by patients, their loved ones and health care professionals. These discussions are about the care and treatment plan of the patient based on their values. Most often these discussions and decisions have been held in person. As healthcare moves to virtual care, especially in our current COVID19 […] The post Virtual Ethics Consultation: A Digital Approach appeared first on Mission Network.

Virtual Ethics Consultation: A Digital Approach

Street Medicine is local and international. In this second episode on Street Medicine we hear about health care leaders in Portland, Oregon responding to the needs in their community. The challenge? Nationally, Oregon has the fourth highest rate of homelessness and the second highest rate of families without shelter. In recent years Portland’s chronic homelessness […] The post Portland Street Medicine: A Local Picture appeared first on Mission Network.

Portland Street Medicine: A Local Picture

A 2019 White House Report tells us that half a million people are homeless each night in the UnitedStates.In 1992, Dr. Jim Withers began doing street rounds in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, bringing medical care to the homeless. Since that time the Street Medicine Institute he founded has grown to become international organization. In 2015, CNN named […] The post Street Medicine: Serving an Excluded Community appeared first on Mission Network.

Street Medicine: Serving an Excluded Community

  COVID19 has caused all of us to prepare and it has also demanded something from us. We hear many stories of the technical and resource preparation. In this episode we speak with three physicians from California and Washington state about their preparation and what it has demanded from them. We hear people in frontier […] The post COVID-19: Physicians Diving Deep appeared first on Mission Network.

COVID-19: Physicians Diving Deep

On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, pointing to the over 118,000 cases of the coronavirus illness in over 110 countries and territories around the world and the sustained risk of further global spread. To discuss some of the ethical issues regarding COVID-19 we are joined by Dr. Ken Iserson […] The post COVID-19: The Ethical Landscape appeared first on Mission Network.

COVID-19: The Ethical Landscape

We hear many stories these days about immigration. Certainly, healthcare workers see undocumented individuals in Emergency Rooms or clinics. What is that experience like of being undocumented and needing healthcare? What would be helpful for clinicians to know? Does healthcare ethics have something to say on this topic? Today we hear from two healthcare leaders […] The post Undocumented Patients: Two Journeys appeared first on Mission Network.

Undocumented Patients: Two Journeys

  As we look back on 2019 and forward to 2020, our guests are editors of key healthcare ethics journals with an international readership: Gregory E. Kaebnick, Editor, The Hastings Center Report Leslie LeBlanc, Managing Editor, Journal of Clinical Ethics Nate Hibner, Primary Editor, Health Care Ethics USA and Director of Ethics at the Catholic […] The post Paying Attention: Looking Back, Looking Forward (2020) appeared first on Mission Network.

Paying Attention: Looking Back, Looking Forward (2020)

Health disparities and health outcomes for African Americans, is egregious… A 2019 report identified that African American Adults, compared to non-Hispanic white adults, are: 44% More likely to die from stroke 20% more likely to have asthma 40% more likely to die from breast cancer 25% more likely to die from heart disease 52% more […]

End of Life Disparities: The African American Community

New research findings regarding HIV status will impact how we understand and practice disclosure of HIV status of patients… specifically whether or not to disclose a sick patients’ HIV serostatus to their family or partner. The new research demonstrates that when an HIV-positive person sticks to their treatment, their HIV is undetectable and untransmittable (U=U). […]

HIV Disclosure: New Ethical Approaches

Urban Bioethics may be a new term for you. It is a field and focus in bioethics that points a critical lens on the extreme inequalities of health and access to medical, legal, and other resources that leave many urban dwellers and communities distinctly disadvantaged, disenfranchised, and vulnerable. What is this focus, its scope, its […]

Urban Bioethics: Building Trust

Imagine you are a patient that is seriously ill and the standard clinical treatment is not working for you. You may want to try experimental drug products, still being investigated and not yet approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (the FDA)…what are your options? There are currently a couple of pathways: First, you […]

Patient Access: Right to Try

Brain death is a fundamental ethical topic that is complex and often fraught with emotion. As ethics committees are faced with considerations involving brain death, these cases are often those that stick with professionals the most. Our lead contributor in this episode Becket Gremmels, System Director of Ethics at CHRISTUS Health in Irving TX is […]

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