Conversations About Ethics: The Ethics of Physician – Assisted Suicide

Event Date: November 6, 2018
Time: Lunch Seminar-Dr. Thompson (11:30am - 1:30pm) and Evening Lecture - Dr. Emanuel (6:00pm - 8pm)
CEU's Available: The evening keynote provides 1 Ethics Continuing Education Unit, and the lunchtime seminar provides 1.5 Ethics Continuing Education Units.

CME: This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit .
This presentation meets the Texas Medical Board criteria for formal continuing medical education involving the study of medical ethics and/or professional responsibility.
CEU: The Ecumenical Center is an approved provider of continuing education by the State of Texas for the following: LPC, LMFT, LSW, LCSW and LMSW.


Multiple Events

Dr. Daniel J. Thompson

The Quantum Paradigm: A New Epoch and a New Ethic in Health Care

Lunch Seminar: 11:30 a.m. Lunch | Noon – 1:30 p.m. Seminar

The Ecumenical Center | 8310 Ewing Halsell | 210-616-0885

Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Legal and Ethical Considerations in Physician-Assisted Suicide

Evening Lecture:

6:00 p.m. Reception | 7:00-8:00 p.m. Lecture

UT Health San Antonio | Pestana Lecture Hall 3.104A7703 Floyd Curl Drive | 210-567-0795

 

Lunch Seminar:

Dr. Daniel Thompson, will speak on how practitioners’ own emotional and psychological health affects patients, which is often communicated to the patient transrationally and unconsciously.

Learning Objectives:

  • To understand the basic elements that set the quantum revolution in motion.
  • To understand the changing view of reality brought on by the quantum paradigm.
  • To understand how the new worldview expands and transcends our standard conceptualization of health and healthcare.
  • To understand how medical and mental health practitioners and their staffs have a systemic/group/milieu effect on patients that is much more powerful than previously understood.
  • To understand how practitioners’ own emotional and psychological health affects patients, which is often communicated to the patient transrationally and unconsciously.
  • To understand that patients’ emotional and mental lives have a more direct effect on physical conditions than we ever thought possible previously.

 

Evening Lecture:

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, will speak on the most common reasons patients request physician assisted suicide and the ethical concerns in physician decision making.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn precise definitions for terminology used in international discussions of physician-assisted suicide.
  • Be able to discuss the most common reasons patients request physician -assisted.
  • Be able to articulate several ethical concerns related to physician-assisted suicide and discuss whether these need additional research.

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