Ethical Issues Surrounding Non-Beneficial or Futile Treatment

The Summer Workshop in Clinical Ethics was held on June 6, 2009 at the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning at the University of San Francisco. This annual one-day workshop provides an intensive, interactive introduction to the analysis of ethical problems in clinical care. The workshop is directed to physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, attorneys, teachers and other professionals involved in the care of patients or the education of providers.

Check back next year for information about the 2010 workshop!

For more information, please email us at ethics@sutterhealth.org.

Agenda

8:30 – 9:00 Registration

9:00–10:00 Five Cases: Presentation and
General Discussion

10:00 BREAK

10:15–11:15 Ideas Behind Non-Beneficial Treatment;
Lawrence Schneiderman, MD

11:15 BREAK

11:30–12:30 Clinical Management of Non-Beneficial
TX Situations; William Andereck, MD

12:30 BREAK

12:45–1:45 Working Lunch to Discuss Five Cases

1:45 – 2:45 Return to the Five Cases
Drs. Schneiderman, Andereck, Jonsen

2:45 BREAK

3:00 – 4:00 Charting and Recording an Ethics
Consultation; Katrina Bramstedt, PhD

4:00 Evaluation

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