Are Quality of Life' Judgments Ethical? | Prof. Gina Noia

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🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This talk was given on April 10th, 2023 at Ohio State University. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Gina Maria Noia is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Resident Bioethicist at Belmont Abbey College. She received her Ph.D. in Theology and Health Care Ethics from Saint Louis University. She has served as a clinical ethicist for OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL and St. Alexius Hospital in St. Louis, MO, and she is published in Christian Bioethics and the Journal of Moral Theology. She and her husband, Justin, love spending time with their vivacious one-year-old boy.

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0:25.6	I want to tell you about a patient who we'll call Anne.
0:33.6	Anne is 74 years old and presents with aspiration pneumonia and septic shock.
0:40.3	She has congestive heart failure, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary caeccia, hypertension,
0:50.3	and a history of stroke, sepsis, and respiratory failure.
0:55.7	She had a G-2 placed about six months ago due to ongoing malnutrition.
1:01.6	Since that time, she has been in and out of the hospital with increasing frequency for
1:05.6	serious bacterial infections.
1:08.2	She has difficulty clearing secretions and great difficulty walking. What do you think
1:15.5	about Anne's quality of life? Do you say garbage? Other thoughts about Anne's quality of life?
1:31.3	Do you get any hints about what her references were? Or if this type of life experience is consistent with what she wanted for her life, given all the things that she's facing?
1:40.3	Or would that be cheating?
1:41.3	Those are great questions.
1:43.3	I was just looking for kind of initial initial response seems like
1:49.2	a lot of the initial responses were doesn't sound good right um okay i wanted to keep this case in
1:55.3	mind we'll return to it as far as an outline for this talk i'm going to start by summarizing what studies show about the ability to judge quality of life.
2:05.6	I'll review what the AMA code of ethics says about quality of life judgments in health care decision making,
2:14.6	and then we'll look at what the Catholic tradition says about quality of life
2:18.7	judgments. From there, I'd like to try to clarify what I see as a few different meanings of that
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