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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics co-sponsored with NMH Medical Ethics Grand Rounds and Patient Safety Grand Rounds

presents

A Lecture With

Nancy Berlinger, PhD
Research Scholar
The Hastings Center

The Ethics of Workarounds in Health Care

The learning objectives of this lecture are:

1.     Define workarounds and identify common clinical situations that trigger workaround behaviors

2.     Describe the ethical dimensions of workaround behaviors in the context of clinical work and health care organizations

3.     Identify ways for health care systems to support clinical work and reduce problematic uses of workarounds

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Flash(y) Bioethics – MA Student Edition!

The MA Faculty introduces the Montgomery Lecture Series with a Faculty “Flash(y)” lecture every fall, and this is a variation on that theme.  For this Montgomery Lecture six of our MA students are going to explore a topic they (literally) drew out of a hat in a pithy 5 minutes or less! Come cheer them on as they tackle this challenge, and engage you with a sampling of the diversity of issues engaged by the medical humanities and bioethics.

Camille Kroll (MA student) PARANORMAL

Chloe Matovina (MD/MA student) STANCE

Meghan McKenna (MA/MS Genetic Counseling student) CONFIDENTIAL

Victoria Groner (MA/MS Genetic Counseling student) MEMENTO MORI

Julia Murphy (MD/MA student) MEMORY

Hillary Rieger (MA/MS Genetic Counseling student) INVESTIGATE

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Joel Frader, MD, MA
Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Feinberg School of Medicine
Pediatric Palliative Care Physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Doing Good?

A few international PHARMA-sponsored “charitable access programs” provide free treatment for rare diseases for patients in the developing world.  Generally speaking, this treatment costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per patient per year in the industrialized world.  As the (volunteer) ethicist for the largest of these programs (over 225 current patients receiving treatment around the globe), I struggle with moral justifications for what we are doing.  This session will describe the program and the associated ethical issues.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Lisa Olstein
Director, New Writers Project 
Faculty, Michener Center for Writers
Professor, Department of English
University of Texas at Austin

Pain Studies:
A Reading and Conversation With Author Lisa Olstein

In this extended lyric essay, a poet mines her lifelong experience with migraine to deliver a marvelously idiosyncratic cultural history of pain—how we experience, express, treat, and mistreat it. Her sources range from the trial of Joan of Arc to the essays of Virginia Woolf and Elaine Scarry to Hugh Laurie’s portrayal of Gregory House on House M.D. As she engages with science, philosophy, visual art, rock lyrics, and field notes from her own medical adventures (both mainstream and alternative), she finds a way to express the often-indescribable experience of living with pain. Eschewing simple epiphanies, Olstein instead gives us a new language to contemplate and empathize with a fundamental aspect of the human condition.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

M. Jeanne Wirpsa, MA, BCC, HEC-C
Program Manager & Clinical Ethicist, Medical Ethics Program
Research Chaplain, Spiritual Care & Education
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Ethical Issues in the Care of Patients with Limited English Proficiency

Ethical Issues in the Care of Patients with Limited English Proficiency

An estimated 26 million Americans age 5+ are considered to be limited English proficient. This case-based talk will examine ethical issues that arise in the provision of healthcare to this vulnerable population.