Ethical Dilemmas in the Hospital | David Magnus, PhD

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Medicine, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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What happens when miscommunication between a doctor and patient leads to intractable conflict? What happens when a patient requests an intervention a doctor does not feel ethically comfortable with? In the toughest of situations, doctors turn to the clinical ethicist for help. David Magnus, PhD, an internationally regarded leader in clinical ethics, is the director of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Bioethics, and...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Henry Bear.
0:03.0	And I'm Tyler Johnson.
0:05.0	And you're listening to The Doctor's Art, a podcast that explores meaning in medicine.
0:09.0	Throughout our medical training and career, we have pondered.
0:13.2	What makes medicine meaningful?
0:15.1	Can a stronger understanding of this meaning
0:17.2	create better doctors?
0:18.8	How can we build health care institutions
0:20.6	that nurture the doctor-patient connection?
0:23.0	What can we learn about the human condition from accompanying our patients in times of suffering?
0:28.0	In seeking answers to these questions, we meet with deep thinkers working across health care, from doctors and nurses to patients and health care executives, those who have collected a career's worth of hard-earned wisdom.
0:40.0	Probing the moral heart that beats at the core of medicine, we will hear stories that are by turns heart-breaking, amusing, inspiring, challenging, and enlightening.
0:49.0	We welcome anyone curious about why doctors do what they do.
0:53.0	Join us as we think out loud about what illness and healing can teach us about some of life's biggest questions. When doctors run into the toughest ethical scenarios in the hospital, say, a patient in her family disagreeing about a treatment plan due to a deep-seated cultural issue or an apparently cognitively impaired patient
1:14.8	refusing treatment, they often turn to the clinical ethicist for help.
1:19.4	Our guest today, Dr David Magnus, is someone who answers that call for help and is an internationally
1:24.7	regarded leader in this work. Dr. Magnus is the director of the Stanford University
1:29.6	Center for Biomedical Ethics, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Bioethics, and former president of the Association of Bioethics program directors.
1:38.0	His wide-ranging research interests include genetics, stem cell research, organ transplantation, end of life care, and patient communication.
1:47.0	Dr. Bagnus frequently serves as a popular commentator on issues of medical ethics, having appeared on Good Morning America, Fox News, ABC World News, NPR, and more.
1:58.0	In this episode, Dr. Magnus shares what he has learned from the most ethically ambiguous situations he has
2:04.0	encountered, the importance of ethical thinking skills for all clinicians and the challenges
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