The Trent Center For Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series presents

Philip Rosoff, MD, MA,
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
Director of the Clinical Ethics Program
Duke University Hospital

Justice, Health Care Rationing and Pandemic Flu

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
12:00-1:00 pm
Duke North Hospital Lecture Hall 2002

Lunch provided at NOON
Talk begins at 12:15 pm

Based on principles of justice, we have devised a fair and effective allocation scheme for scarce medical resources (ventilators, ICU beds, etc.) for North Carolina. These guidelines also describe methods to enlist retired and inactive health care providers to help out, incent current providers to accept their "duty to care,” expand the scope of Good Samaritan laws to permit good faith expansions of individuals' practices when necessary, and compensate health care workers injured in the course of taking care of flu patients.

Philip Rosoff, MD, MA is Director of the Clinical Ethics Program at Duke University Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. He serves as Chair for both the Hospital Ethics Committee and the Clinical Ethics Consult Subcommittee. He teaches clinical ethics extensively throughout the hospital and has developed specialized curricula for the house staff in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics and the Department of Nursing. His clinical and research interests center around medical ethics, particularly medical decision-making and the philosophy of biology with an emphasis on behavioral genetics.

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