A critical look at Patient and Family-Centred Care
This post contains the text for my presentation as the 9th Annual Sue MacRae Lecturer, at the Joint Centre for Bioethics in May 2016. Continue Reading
Slippery slopes and safeguards
My thesis is done! I’m not going to post it anywhere until I’ve graduated in a few weeks, but in the meantime, here is a summary (which I adapted from the abstract). Physician-Assisted Suicide: Slippery Slopes and Safeguards Although physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is legal… Continue Reading
Sue MacRae Lecturer 2016
On this sunny Saturday, I am working on my speech as the Sue MacRae lecturer for 2016. Hope to see you there! 9th Annual Sue MacRae Lecture on Ethics and Patient-Centred Care May 18 2016, 4:10-5:30 University of Toronto Health… Continue Reading
In pursuit of a child’s potential
In pursuit of a child’s potential: a parent’s reflections on hope and futility by Jennifer Johannesen (reprinted with permission from Brainstorm: A newsletter about ethics, neuroscience, and society. Prepared by the Neuroethics research unit at the IRCM. Vol 8 No… Continue Reading
Advance directives – do you know what you’re signing up for?
Discussion of advance directives has popped up on my radar a lot lately. Could be my age (almost 45, which I optimistically consider the half-way mark) or my field of study (bioethics). Or, it could be that the need is… Continue Reading
Physician aid-in-dying
I’m saddened by the recent Supreme Court ruling wherein the judges unanimously voted to remove restrictions on physician aid-in-dying. Many of my peers and friends are in support of this ruling and would perhaps be surprised I feel differently. I… Continue Reading
Ask Me Anything
I gave a few talks this year, most of which left me dissatisfied. I think I delivered the ‘material’ okay and the audiences were receptive but each time I felt depleted and mildly embarrassed. I wrote about one of my… Continue Reading
My academic foray into bioethics
I’ve just started Year 2, studying bioethics. I’m due to graduate in 2016 with a Master of Science in Bioethics (policy specialization), from “The Bioethics Program of Union Graduate College and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai”. (I was… Continue Reading
On meeting my younger self
I have been thinking a lot about my recent interview with Christine and have decided to write about it. Please read this brief post first. In previous interviews, each of the subjects has had the luxury and benefit of time.… Continue Reading
Conversations with…Christine
I interviewed Christine Kluczynski in her home earlier this summer. I hadn’t met her before and wasn’t familiar with her story or her blog – so I was not only keen to capture her story, I was keen to simply… Continue Reading