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.