Children: Education and Safety in the Time of COVID

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Jamie Carlin Watson, clinical ethicist for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Bioethics. Watson is the author of several books, including: A History and Philosophy of Expertise: The Nature and Limits of Authority (Bloomsbury, 2022), Expertise: A Philosophical Introduction (Bloomsbury 2020), and Moral Expertise: New Essays from Theoretical and Clinical Bioethics, edited with Laura K. Guidry-Grimes (Springer, 2018). https://jamiecarlinwatson.weebly.com/

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Philip Alberti, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) senior director of health equity research and policy, and founding director of the Center for Health Justice. Dr. Alberti's work is fueled by the belief that solutions to health injustice exist within communities themselves, and that the path to better health goes beyond medical care to working alongside partners across multiple sectors that impact our everyday lives. Dr. Alberti's most recent publication is "A Population Health Impact Pyramid for Health Care" (Milbank Quarterly, 2023 Apr;101(S1):770-794.)

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Frederic W. Hafferty, professor of medical education at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota. He is the author of “Into the Valley: Death and the Socialization of Medical Students” (Yale University Press); “The Changing Medical Profession: An International Perspective” (Oxford University Press), with John McKinlay; “Sociology and Complexity Science: A New Field of Inquiry” (Springer) with Brian Castellani, “The Hidden Curriculum in Health Professions Education” (Dartmouth College Press) with Joseph O’Donnell, “Understanding Professionalism” (Lange) with Wendy Levinson, Katherine Lucy, and Shiphra Ginsburg and “Place and Health as Complex Systems: A Case study and Empirical Test “ (Springer) with Brian Castellani, Rajeev Rajaram, J. Galen Buckwalter and Michael Ball.

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Joel Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies at Georgetown University, Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Senior Bioethics Advisor to and Fellow of The Hastings Center, and Faculty Scholar of The Greenwall Foundation. Dr. Reynolds is especially concerned with the meaning of disability, the issue of ableism, and how philosophical inquiry into each might improve the lives of disabled people and the justness of practices in medicine, science, politics, and law.

Joel Reynolds can be found at https://joelreynolds.me/

Works mentioned:

1. Binkley, C. E., Reynolds, J. M., & Shuman, A. (2022). From the Eyeball Test to the Algorithm - Quality of Life, Disability Status, and Clinical Decision Making in Surgery. The New England journal of medicine, 387(14), 1325–1328. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMms2207408
2. Reynolds, J. M. Three Things Clinicians Should Know About Disability. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(12):E1181-1187. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.1181
3. Reynolds, J. M., & Wieseler, C. (Eds.). (2022). The Disability Bioethics Reader. Taylor & Francis Group.
4. Reynolds, J. M. (2022). The life worth living: disability, pain, and morality. U of Minnesota Press.

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Charles Binkley, M.D., FACS, HEC-C, the director of Bioethics for the health network’s Central Region, and also an associate professor of Surgery at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine on his recent New England Journal of Medicine paper, “From the Eyeball Test to the Algorithm – Quality of Life, Disability Status, and Clinical Decision Making in Surgery,” which contends that more data and an empirical framework involving algorithms would aid doctors, who must seek out more input than just their sole observation of the patient in deciding whether a surgical intervention is “worth it.”

1. Binkley CE, Reynolds JM, Shuman A. From the Eyeball Test to the Algorithm — Quality of Life, Disability Status, and Clinical Decision Making in Surgery. New England Journal of Medicine. 2022;387(14):1325-1328. doi:10.1056/NEJMms2207408

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Eli Adashi. Dr. Adashi served as the Fifth Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences at Brown University, and is presently a tenured Professor of Medical Science with the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Since 2008, Adashi has undertaken to focus on matters of policy at the nexus of medicine, law, ethics, and social justice.

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to bioethicist, Dr. Nancy Berlinger. Berlinger is a Research Scholar at The Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institute based in Garrison, NY. Her current research focuses on ethical and societal challenges arising from population aging; the bioethics of migration, and responding to and learning from the Covid-19 pandemic.

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Rui Nunes, professor of bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. Professor Nunes is also the president and founder of the Portuguese Association of Bioethics and is a member of the Portuguese National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences. His most recent book is "Healthcare as a Universal Human Right: Sustainability in Global Health" (Taylor & Francis, 2022).

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Scott Schweikart, JD, MBE, Senior Research Associate at the American Medical Association and legal editor of the AMA's Journal of Ethics. They discuss AMA's COVID-19 Ethics Guidance website (https://www.ama-assn.org/topics/covid-19-ethics-guidance) in addition to issues surrounding vaccine hesitancy, physicians as models of good health behavior, and our society's current distrust of science and medicine.

In Conscience, Vaccines, and the Obligations of Community, a panel of experts discusses respect for individual conscience and decision making and how to balance this with the health needs of communities. Considerations of conscientious objection, vaccine hesitancy, and the role of philosophical and religious concerns in requesting exemptions are to be discussed.

Recorded on February 10, 2022.

Panelists:

-Jason T. Eberl, PhD, Director; Professor, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University
-Paul Cummins, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Bioethics Clarkson University
-Kirk Johnson, MDiv, DMH, Assistant Professor, Justice Studies Montclair State University