Pediatric Ethics Podcast

Intraprofessional disagreements about complex cases.

The zone of parental discretion: an ethical tool for dealing with disagreement between parents and doctors about medical treatment for a child.

Dr. Joanna Clark leads a discussion on dysthanasia.

Joseph Millum is the author of a new book about a new theory for bioethics. The volume offers a carefully argued, compelling theory of bioethics while eliciting practical implications for a wide array of issues including medical assistance-in-dying, the right to health care, abortion, animal research, and the definition of death. The authors' dual value theory features mid-level principles, a distinctive model of moral status, a subjective account of well-being, and a cosmopolitan view of global justice. In addition to ethical theory, the book investigates the nature of harm and autonomous action, personal identity theory, and the “non-identity problem” associated with many procreative decisions.

Dr. Jane Lee, associate professor of pediatrics in the Medical College of Wisconsin's Complex Care department, discusses her new book Catastrophic Rupture: A Memoir of Healing.

Dr. Weisleder discusses the role that neurologists played in the eugenics movements of the twentieth century.

After her son was born with a life-threatening congenital heart condition, Wendy Hind, Ph.D., J.D., began using poetry and essay as a form of narrative medicine - it's her way of expressing herself and connecting to others through issues of health and healing. She is the founder and curator of #tinypoetryproject - short poems posted weekly as narrative medicine for the soul. Wendy is also a former university vice president, professor, policy advisor, and attorney. She has published health related poems and essays in several journals including, The Healing Muse, Blood and Thunder, and Hektoen International.

Dr. Carter discusses the ways words shape our perceptions of medical interventions, and why there are hesitations with immunization.

Dr. Angela Myers discusses whether or not children should receive the new COVID-19 vaccine.

Dr. Barbara Pahud discusses ethical questions concerning the COVID-19 vaccine(s) and children.

In this three-person panel, Shelby Rebeck MSN, RN, Dr. Jeremy Garrett, and Vanessa Watkins, MPH discuss how school nurses are handling COVID-19.

Dr. Jeremy Garrett, Vanessa Watkins MPH, Alaina Burns, PharmD discuss finding a work-life balance during the pandemic.

In this panel interview, Dr. Jeremy Garrett and Vanessa Watkins, MPH, discuss the decisions parents are facing regarding sending their children to school and what the best approach is for their child's education.

Dr. Phoebe Danziger discusses the possible pushback from a COVID-19 vaccine, and how to overcome doubts of the safety and efficacy of a new vaccine.

Dr. Nathaniel Beers discusses the ethical, epidemiological, economic, and emotional issues surrounding the conversation on whether or not children should return to school or resume online learning.

Dr. Shari Barkin shares what the next phase of COVID-19 will look like, what society has learned, and where society all goes from here.

Dr. Erica Salter joins Dr. Lantos to discuss the arguments for and against the best interest standard.

Susan Wootton, MD discusses COVID-19 and the issues that parents and children are facing as we move towards the fall and the new school year.

The UK was hit hard by COVID-19.  One of the UK's leading bioethicists, Dr. Dominic Wilkinson from Oxford University, will talk about some of the decision makings that was crucial to getting through the crisis.

Dr. Louis Bell shares what the pediatricians at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have learned from the pandemic and how they can move forward.

Dr. George Hardart shares what it is like in New York City, the epicenter of COVID-19 in the United States.

Dr. Annie Janiver shares her personal story of having her daughter Violette born at 23 weeks of gestation and spend some time in the NICU.  Dr. Janvier discusses her book about what it was like to be a patient in the unit where she had long been an attending physician.

Dr. Stephanie Deutsch explains what to do when parents are suspected of abuse and their child needs some urgent decisions made during the pandemic.

Dr. Erin Dashka-Talati Paquette shares how pandemics raise unique ethical issues.

Dr. Amy Caruso Brown discusses ethical decisions and communication strategies during a pandemic.

Dr. Doug Diekema has been working with a state planning task force and will talk about how they are thinking about the state's needs in dealing with COVID-19.

Dr. Laura Miller-Smith discusses the case of Tinslee Lewis, a baby in Texas who is at the center of a controversy about medical futility.

Katie Watson, JD discusses the 2018 Professor Watson published Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion with Oxford University Press.

Dr. Jeremy Garrett shares why some parents would want to get their children's genetics screened and sequenced. However, is it beneficial for the children?

Dr. Daniel Brudney explains some doctors refuse to provide certain medical treatments to their patients because they have a conscientious objection to those treatments. However, should all objections to treatment be honored?  Where are the limits between professional obligations and personal beliefs?

Sarah DiGregorio shares her personal story of going into premature labor, what she went through with a baby in the NICU, and what lead her into researching how NICU's came about.

Dr. Steve Leuthner discusses the ethical questions surrounding advances in prenatal diagnosis and in-utero treatment of fetuses.

Professor Groll proposes four models for thinking about how to balance the interests of parents, families, and a sick child.