Masking Mistakes - my panel discussion at the Emory Center for Ethics

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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"Masking Mistakes: Lessons from the Science, Policy, and Coverage of COVID-19", the 2024 Brian Shields Lecture on Institutional Ethics which took place on Monday, October 7, 2024 for the Emory Center for Ethics. A conversation with Carlos Del Rio, MD and Vinay Prasad, MD MPH with moderation by Gerard Vong, DPhil, Director of the MA in Bioethics program.

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by Emory University.
0:04.0	This program is brought to you by the Emory University Center for Ethics.
0:10.0	Hopefully you can still hear me. Okay. So good evening and welcome to masking mistakes,
0:17.0	the 2024 Brian Shields lecture on institutional ethics.
0:22.6	My name is John Leisker and I am the new director of Emory's Center for Ethics, which is hosting tonight's event.
0:29.6	The series focuses on situations that test the moral character resources and imaginations of institutions and those who work within them.
0:41.3	COVID-19 was certainly such a test. How does one keep a nation safe based on emerging and complex data while allowing social life to continue to flow in the ways that sustain almost everything we do.
0:57.0	It thus seems timely to look back at how a multifaceted healthcare system in conjunction with state agencies
1:05.0	handled a time that few are likely to forget.
1:09.0	And given that thoughtful people will assess that handling differently,
1:14.6	it seems essential to look back by way of conversation that engages and tests varying viewpoints.
1:23.6	As with efforts to address a pandemic, efforts to advance ethical life require collaborative
1:30.3	and generative dialogue. Before introducing our panelists, allow me to thank Brian Shields for his generous
1:39.0	support of this series and our master's in bioethics program. As a pharmaceutical sales rep, Brian stood up to his employer for misleading doctors and
1:49.1	patients about the effectiveness of one of its drugs in treating non-small cell lung cancer.
1:55.4	Such a commitment to accountability is exemplary, and it is in the spirit of accountability that we gather tonight,
2:02.6	although not just to look backwards. We also wish to focus on lessons learned and those
2:08.3	might very well include successes. So thank you Brian. Let me now introduce our panelists.
2:16.6	Carlos Del Rio MD is the Leon L. Haley Jr. Let me now introduce our panelists.
2:18.3	Carlos Del Rio, MD, is the Leon L. Haley Jr.
2:21.8	Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health, which is why he has
2:35.0	three business cards.
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