Ethics Grand Rounds

Ethics Grand Rounds, which are open to the entire medical center, are conducted monthly as a forum for the discussion of ethical issues in health care that arise in the Medical Center or in the larger community.

Listed below are topics addressed at past rounds:

• The Role of Ethics in Health Care


• The Ethics of a Marketplace for Organs


• Autonomy Run Amok


• The Ethics of Palliation and Palliative Care


• The Ethics of Organ Donation After Cardiac Death


• The Ethics of Medical Education


• The Ethics of Saying, “I’m Sorry”


• The Ethics of Using Placebos in the Routine Care and Treatment of Children


• The Ethics of Physician-Industry Interaction


• The Ethics of Health Care During Pandemics


• The Ethics of Futility: How Do We Define It? How Do We Identify It?


• How Do We Address It?


• The Ethics of Decision Making About Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)


• The Ethics of Breaking Bad News


• The Ethics of IVF-Induced High-Order Multiple Pregnancies


• The Ethics of HIV Testing


• The Ethics of Conscientious Objection in Health care


• The Ethics of Resource Allocation During Pandemics


• The Ethics of Pain Management


• Ethical Choices in a New Orleans Hospital: What Would You Have Done?


• The Ethics of Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval


• Why Do Patients Need Professional Advocates?


• The Ethics of Decisional Capacity


• The Ethics of Religion-Based Refusal of Medical Treatment


• The Ethics of Vegetative States and Other Disorders of Consciousness


• The Ethics of Pharmaceutical Detailing


• Patient Satisfaction and Patient Care: Are These Goals Ever in Tension?


• Growth-Attenuation Therapy: The Ashley Treatment


• The Ethics of Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials


• A Right to Die: The Dax Cowart Case


• Is This Treatment Justified? Resource Allocation in the Trauma Setting


• The Ethics of the Electronic Medical Record


• The Ethics of Assigning Kidneys


• If We Know Medical Futility When We See It, What Do We Do About It?


• Should Women Be Doctors?


• The Ethics of State Intervention When Children Are Morbidly Obese


• The Ethics of Children As Organ Donors and Survivor Siblings


• Disney in the Nursery: The Ethics of Commercialization in the Clinical Setting


• The Moral Response to China’s System of Organ Procurement


• Will Tying Hospital Reimbursement to Patient Satisfaction Enhance Patient Care?


• Euthanasia For the Alzheimer’s Patient? Lessons From the Netherlands


• Why Can’t Amelia Receive a Kidney?


• The Ethics of National Drug Shortages


• Who Is Controlling What Health care Practitioners Discuss with Their Patients


• Whose Life Is It Anyway? The Ethics of Hastening Death By Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED)


• The Ethics of Savior Siblings


• There Is No Administrative Consent or Two-Physician Consent: Who Makes Decisions For the Patient Alone?


• The Ethics of Conflicts of Interest: What You Need to Know About Them and the New Hackensack University Medical Center policy


• Who’s Minding the Store? The Ethics of Compounding Pharmacies


• The Ethics of Whole Genome Sequencing in Newborns


• Disregarding DNR Consented to By Capable Patient When Family Insists on Resuscitation


• The Ethics of Elective (Non-therapeutic) Ventilation to Maximize Organ Donation


• The Cancer of Optimism: Are Optimism and Realism Incompatible in the Clinical Setting?


• The Ethics of “Transitioning” Patients to Other Care Settings


• Who Owns Your Genetic Information and What is Being Done With It? The Saga of Henrietta Lacks


• Informed Consent: Is It Beneficial? Is It Fair? Is It Possible?


• The New and Improved Declaration of Helsinki: Why Does It Matter?


• When Patients and Families Request or Reject Caregivers Based on Race, Ethnicity, or Gender: Is Accommodating These Preferences Ethically Justifiable?

As an additional resource, the Bioethics Library Link provides medical center staff with online access to a selection of articles related to each month’s grand rounds topic. These articles are available for download and remain posted for six months.