Helping Patients Who Are Dying Or Helping Patients To Die? | Prof. Farr Curlin

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Farr Curlin is the Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and CoDirector of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke University. Dr. Curlin’s ethics scholarship takes up moral questions that are raised by religionassociated differences in physicians’ practices. He is an active palliative medicine physician and holds appointments in both the School of Medicine and the Divinity School, where he is working with colleagues to develop a new interdisciplinary community of scholarship and training focused on the intersection of theology, medicine, and culture.

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1:01.2	It's good to be with you. Thank you all for coming.
1:06.2	I realize in our time, one of the things that is hard to do is to hold attention.
1:13.6	You know, particularly post-COVID, we're finding that the numbers of people who will
1:18.6	cohere a lecture have gone down.
1:20.9	I think we've all lost some of our capacity to focus.
1:25.4	So I'm going to try to speak for about half an hour to 35 minutes,
1:29.2	and then if you along the way have questions come to your mind, maybe write them down or thumb
1:34.6	them into your notes on your phone, and hopefully we'll have a good amount of time for discussion
1:39.1	this afternoon. And I should say at the beginning, greetings from my colleagues.
1:45.0	How many of you guys are in healthcare or think you're on your way to work in healthcare?
1:51.0	All right, good. So at Duke, we have a program that's quite unique.
1:59.0	It's called the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative.
2:01.5	My position at Duke, my primary appointment is in the Ethics Center,
2:05.0	but I have a joint appointment in the Divinity School,
2:07.5	and we have a program out of the Divinity School
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