Conflict & Conscience in Healthcare

11th Annual Summer Conference

July 15-17, 2004

Trinity International University, Deerfield, IL

The Patient’s Good vs. Society’s Good - Edmund Pellegrino, MD
Right of Conscience: Professional and Institutional - Teresa Collett, JD (Response/Dialogue with Sam Casey, JD and Nik Nikas, JD) Panelists- Dorinda Bordlee, JD, Richard Doerflinger, MA, and William Saunders, JD
Speaking Forthrightly for Patients: Placebos and Other Perils to Virtuous Communication - Susan Salladay, RN, PhD (Response/Dialogue with Mary Thomson, RN, MSN)Medical Futility: End-of-Life Conflict Among Patients, Family, and Caregivers - Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD

Legal Constraints on Medicine: Malpractice, Medicine, and Beyond - Curtis Harris, JD, MD
Following Conscience in the Face of Beginning-of-Life Conflict - Yvonne Moore, MD (Response/Dialogue with David Stevens, MD)
Moral Complicity: Personal, Clinical, and Organizational Ethics - Robert Orr, MD

Recovering the Ecclesial Care and Counsel Giving Role - Gregory Waybright, PhD
Conscience or Conflict in Healthcare Ministry? - Alma Labunski, PhD
Paternalism, Patient Autonomy, & the Post-modern Obstetrical Birth Plan - Susan Haack, MD
Public Health Vaccination Programs: An Example of Conflict & Conscience in Preventative Medicine - Sharon Falkenheimer, MD
Are the Rights of Conscience of Healthcare Personnel and Institutions Protected by Law? - Clarke Forsythe, JD
Futility vs. Autonomy - David Fletcher, PhD
Searing Physician Consciences: Initiating a Century of Death with the American Genocide - Gregory Rutecki, MD
The Peace Bridge: A New Paradigm for Conflict Resolution - Ed Hollenberg, MD
Medical Futility: End-of-Life Conflict Among Patients, Family, & Caregivers - Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD
Inter-Disciplinary Case Study - Robert Orr, MD

God's Glory at the End of Our Lives - John Dunlop, MD
An Honest Approach to Healthcare Financing - Warren Anderson, MD
Policy Derivation: When Should A Human Embryo Be Afforded Human Research Protection? - Nancy Jones, PhD and Clarke Forsythe, JD
Should Physicians Prescribe Consciolytic Drugs - William Cheshire, MD; Nancy Jones, PhD; and Linda McDonald Glenn, JD
Medical Practice and Malpractice: Applying the Deliberative Model Built on Conscience Grounded in Higher Law, Virtue, and Objective Morality - Morse Tan, JD
Tube Feeding Advance Directive Recovering from Acute Illness - Tat-Kin Tsang, MD

Intensive Bioethics Institute - Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD
Advanced Bioethics Institute - John Kilner, PhD and David Fletcher, PhD
Pluralism Bioethics Institute - Edmund Pellegrino, MD and Peter Cha, PhD
Pre-Med/Undergraduate Bioethics Institute - Joyce Shelton, PhD
Wrap-Around Conference Graduate Course - Dennis Hollinger, PhD
Wrap-Around Conference Undergraduate Course - Joyce Shelton, PhD
Post-Conference Seminar: End-of-Life Ethics: Tough Cases - Robert Orr, MD and Arthur Dyck, PhD
Post-Conference Seminar: Launching a Bioethics Center - Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD and Jennifer Lahl, RN, MA