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Hosted by The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 69 episodes
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Essential Ethics, from the Children’s Bioethics Centre at The Royal Children’s Hospital (Melbourne, Australia) presents discussion of challenging cases that come up when treating children. Hear the most up-to-date thinking and draw knowledge from the ethics toolkit. After a decade or more of experience our team of world-recognised ethicists takes on the hardest cases. Essential Ethics is informative, interesting and always relevant. Hosted by Professor John Massie, a clinician and bioethicist at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.
The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne hosts Essential Ethics, a health show with 69 episodes published.
In this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, research nurse coordinator Cat Wood from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute explores the ethical challe
In this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, Dr Ciara Earley explores the ethical challenges that arise when parental advocacy becomes increasingly demanding. D
In this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, nurse Elise Burn explores the impact of social media on young people living with illness. In SickTok: Adolesce
In this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, Emeritus Professor Myra Bluebond-Langner and Professor Lynn Gillam explore the ethical importance of talking w
In this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, social workers Dani Gold and Anna Lucia examine the ethical consequences of how family violence is documented in he
In this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, Associate Professor Rosalind McDougall explores how we can make better ethical decisions in clinical practice. Draw
In this opening keynote of the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, Professor John McMillan from the Bioethics Centre at the University of Otago explores how clinical ethicists can be most useful in healthcare.
Moral distress is a pervasive phenomenon in healthcare and contributes to healthcare worker burnout, turnover, and withdrawal from patient care. Dr Morley provides a brief overview of the concept of moral distress and, t
Caring for children with severe neurological impairments presents multiple challenges. As medical technology advances, the choices for clinicians and families grow in complexity. From life-prolonging interventions to dee
Suffering is an important concept in medical practice, but it can be hard to be certain just what suffering is. This is amplified in paediatric practice when it can be hard to know when a child is suffering, especially i
Tyler Tate has co-authored a wonderful paper, "Love Your Patient", which explores the lost heart of medicine that is now driven by scientific and financial imperatives. In this podcast, Tyler explains his paper and makes
Moral distress was first defined in the nursing literature (Jameton, 1984) as "the experience of knowing the right thing to do while being in a situation in which it is nearly impossible to do it". This was seen as a dep
Moral distress is a pervasive phenomenon in healthcare and contributes to healthcare worker burnout, turnover, and withdrawal from patient care. Dr Morley provides a brief overview of the concept of moral distress and, t
Music as a therapeutic intervention is often used to transcend deficits and medical acuity, shifting instead to a strengths-based approach. Here, moments of joy are celebrated, and even the smallest positive responses of
Talking about stressful situations can give rise to euphemisms. Coded language can help smooth harsh realities or create a bond when it’s shared by a team. But in healthcare, when it stigmatises the patient, does it have
Bioethics, as an applied form of ethics, is concerned with clinical problems and decision-making. This makes sense because healthcare takes action to resolve challenges in preventing and treating illness. But by focusing
Associate Professor Tom Connell speaks about the challenges faced by large children's hospitals with the availability of high cost new drugs. Speaker: Associate Professor Tom Connell, RCH Chief of Medicine. Host: Profess
Dr Daniel Wright explores innovation in the light of gender affirming care for children with gender dysphoria. Daniel shows us how philosophy can help de-pathologise issues such as gender dysphoria, yet still leave room
One of Australia's leading clinical ethicists, Professor Ian Kerridge, brings together storytelling, clinical experience and philosophy to help us navigate a path through the complexity of innovation in health care. Spea
The 2023 conference was unified by the theme of innovation. Between 2023 and 2030, there will be at least ten new and expensive therapies approved every year. But in Australia and many other nations, these won't necessar
Jack Thomas
Music Therapist · The Royal Children's Hospital
1 appearance on this show
Daniel Wright
Clinical Psychologist and PhD candidate, Children's Bioethics Centre · University of Toronto
1 appearance on this show
John Tobin
Owner and CEO at John Tobin Presents & Co-Owner and Talent Manager at Laugh Boston · Splice Bio
1 appearance on this show
Cat Wood
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
1 appearance on this show
Dr Georgina Morley
Cleveland Clinic
1 appearance on this show
Dr Zoë McCallum
The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne
1 appearance on this show
Tania Ramos
The Royal Children's Hospital
1 appearance on this show
Prof Ian Kerridge
Royal Northshore Hospital
1 appearance on this show
Tom Connell
Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne
1 appearance on this show
Professor Ian Kerridge
University of Sydney
1 appearance on this show
Jack Southwell
RCH
1 appearance on this show
A/Prof Michael Marks
RCH
1 appearance on this show
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