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Hierarchy in Medicine: Effects on Patient Care

Old Clinic 4th Floor Auditorium

Pediatric Schwartz Center Rounds® A multidisciplinary forum where pediatric clinical caregivers discuss social & emotional issues that arise in caring for patients  Hierarchy in Medicine: Effects on Patient Care Facilitator: Mary Beth Prieur, PhD Physician Leader: Afsaneh Pirzadeh, MD All hospital caregivers are welcome! For more information, please contact Peds_PCCM_Admin@med.unc.edu Pediatric Schwartz Rounds are sponsored by the Department … Read more

Clinical Ethics: Pediatric Ethics Consultation: A Look Behind the Curtain

Old Clinic 4th Floor Auditorium

Pediatric Ethics Consultation:  A Look Behind the Curtain Chris Feudtner, MD PhD MPH Steven D. Handler Endowed Chair of Medical Ethics Attending Physician & Research Director, PACT & ICS Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Please join us for a thoughtful examination of … Read more

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds: What We Talk About When We Talk About Surgery

4008 Old Clinic Auditorium

Margaret L “Gretchen” Schwarze, MD, MPP, FACS Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Co-hosted with the Department of Surgery     All are welcome to attend this session with Dr. Schwarze who will discuss her empirical work on patient-surgeon communication, including exploration of surgical informed consent, shared decision making and interventional … Read more

Assisting Death in America: A Cultural Account of a New Medical Frontier

Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2002

Mara Buchbinder, PhD, UNC Center for Bioethics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lunch provided at noon. Talk begins at 12:10pm. Legislative support for medically assisted dying in the United States has risen steadily in recent years. Eight US jurisdictions currently authorize physicians to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to a mentally competent, terminally … Read more

Talk: psychic surgery in Filipino Spiritism

UNC’s FedEx Global Ed Center (Rm 1009)

Spirits in a New Age: Philippine Centers of the Global Esoteric In the variegated landscape of Filipino paranormal practice, one phenomenon garnered worldwide attention in the last quarter of the twentieth century: psychic surgery.  A form of spiritual healing in which the practitioner, or espiritista, usually male, operates on the body of the patient without anaesthesia … Read more