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The Medical Center Hour: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness2/27/08 - Nancy Berlinger, author of "After Harm: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness," draws on insights from scholarship in religion and culture to suggest how forgiveness, long recognized as having a restorative role between individuals and within communities, might inform health professionals' response to medical error. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Beyond, Not By, the Numbers: Qualitative Research in Medical Education2/20/08 - Janet Hafler of Tufts University discusses the School of Medicine's new emphasis on medical education research and examines the particular role and value of qualitative research in helping us to understand and appraise how doctors are made. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Who's Working for Whom? Commercialization of Biomedical Research and Education2/13/08 - Patricia Tereskerz, Madaline Harrison and Erik Hewlett discuss conflicts of interest involving physicians, especially those practicing in academic health centers, that are at once less obvious and more substantive today than just pharmaceutical company sponsorship of lunches or CME opportunities. Physician judgment is susceptible to external influence, and institutions are not only drafting policies but also developing ways to help physicians recognize and manage conflicts. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Beyond Safety and Efficacy: Should the FDA Consider Ethics in Drug Approvals?2/6/08 - Fran Hawthorne, journalist and author, and Richard A. Merrill, former UVA Law School
dean and council for the FDA, discuss the increasing pressure on the FDA to take into account the
ethics of the drugs before it. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Changing Virginia's Mental Health Laws: Before and After the Virginia Tech Tragedy1/30/08 - James Stewart, Commonwealth Inspector General of Mental Health, and Richard Bonnie,
Chair of the State Supreme Court's commission on mental health, discuss reforming Virginia's
mental health system. What's being proposed, and why? How will changes in state law serve patients,
their families, and the public?
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The Medical Center Hour: Food for Thought: Global and Local Strategies for Healthy Eating1/23/08 - This Medical Center Hour explores a new attentiveness to the foods we consume, with
emphasis both on foods themselves and on the social, environmental and cultural implications of our
eating preferences and patterns. |
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The Medical Center Hour: What is Dead Anyway? Determining Death for Organ Transplantation11/14/07 - How do physicians determine a prospective donor has died? Determination of death by
neurologic criteria ("brain death") is legal and medically preferable, since optimal organ
perfusion can be maintained; but by all appearances a brain-dead donor on life support doesn't seem "dead." Understanding the history as well as the science can help with this challenging aspect of transplantation medicine. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Do Nurses Work for Love, or for Money?11/7/07 - In contrast to medicine, in nursing philanthropic and altruistic ideals conflict with
professional self-determination, most evidently economically. Philanthropists and altruistic agents
seldom seek economic gain or even parity, but professionals, having devoted years to developing
expertise, expect to be paid well and recognized in other ways. What is the basis for nursing |
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