When doctors and parents disagree

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When doctors and parents disagree

The Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children's has posted video of its recent conference "Navigating Conflicts When Parents and Providers Disagree About Medical Care." There are a bunch of interesting topics, including "Parental Requests for 'Futile' Treatment," and "Should Developmentally Delayed Children be Listed for Solid Organ Transplants?"

posted Jul 17, 2007 | link | jump to the comments (1)

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Thanks for the links.

FWIW, I have an article on the notion that the provider/care team may have an ethical obligation to dissent from parent/surrogate preferences regarding DNR orders for neonatal and pediatric patients:

http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=936986

- by Daniel Goldberg on Jul 18, 2007 at 12:01 PM | link

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