Description
Organizing Committee
Judy Johnson, JD, Sadath Sayeed, JD, MD, Robert Truog, MD and Christine Mitchell, RN
Conference Schedule
Please see program schedule for detailed information.
Topics
- How the legal system works
- Reading a legal case
- What’s in a (legal) word?
- Taking a case to court
- What’s the law got to do with clinical ethics and vice versa?
- Decisions for ill newborns
- Physician assisted suicide
- “Terminal Sedation”
- Harmful (futile?) medical treatments
- Surrogate decision-making
- Conscientious objection
- …and more