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.
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
Parent-clinician conflict is a common reason that clinical ethicists become involved in children’s care. The genesis of the conflict is often quite early in the course of the child’s illness and the situation builds to a
A hypothetical case discussion sponsored by the Friends of the Children's Bioethics Centre Auxiliary. "Nadia" is a 15-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis who needs a permanent intravenous infusion device to facilitate her
Jack Southwell, a Social Worker at RCH, describes the moral environment when looking after a child left in the care of the hospital. He discusses the technical differences between abandonment and relinquishment but posit
An expert panel explores the issues that arise when young people request vaccination for COVID-19 against the wishes of their parents. Dr Veronica Cerrati presents a case of a 14-year-old girl with type-1 diabetes reques
Haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation has become the standard treatment for a range of diseases in children and adults. Children, sometimes as young as six months of age may be asked to act as HSC donors, usuall
Professor Jodi Halpern introduces the audience to empathic curiosity, a concept that she has developed through her work in psychiatry, paediatrics and clinical ethics. Prof Halpern explains how sympathy may come naturall
In the clinical care of children who have a disability, the processes of deciding with children can present different challenges. Children who have a disability may have limited ability to understand the decision to be m
Transition to adult services is an important step for patients who have been cared for in a children’s hospital or by a paediatrician. This is a process (transition) rather than an event (transfer) and takes both time an
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