Bioethics for the People: Recent Episodes
Devan Stahl and Tyler Gibb
Bioethics for the People Podcast is for anyone interested in bioethics. Wait, not sure what bioethics is? We are here to explore that question.
In this episode, Tyler and Devan talk with Ray Moseley and Marcia Brown, both from the University of Florida School of Medicine. Ray and Marcia talk about their pilot project that looked at how accurately an AI tool can predict the medical decisions of a patient, compared with a family member or surrogate. The outcomes are surprising.
Dr. Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and Dr. Kristin Kostick-Quenet
Read More Here:
- Goodman KE, Blumenthal-Barby J, Redberg RF "FAIRS - A Framework for Evaluating the Inclusion of Sex in Clinical Algorithms." N Engl J Med. 2025 Jan 8;Online ahead of print Pubmed PMID: 39778166
- Hurley ME, Lang BH, Kostick-Quenet KM, Smith JN, Blumenthal-Barby J "Patient Consent and The Right to Notice and Explanation of AI Systems Used in Health Care." Am J Bioeth. 2024 Sep 17;Online ahead of print:1-13. Pubmed PMID: 39288291
- Kostick-Quenet, K and Rahimzadeh, V "Ethical hazards of health data governance in the metaverse." Nature machine intelligence. 2023 May;5(5):1-3. Pubmed PMID: 37334182
- Rahimzadeh, V., Kostick-Quenet, K., Blumenthal Barby, J., McGuire, A. "Ethics Education for Healthcare Professionals in the Era of chatGPT and Other Large Language Models: Do We Still Need It?." Am J Bioeth. 2023 Jul 24;1-11. Pubmed PMID: 37487184
In this episode we talk with Dr. Benjamin Collins about combating bias in AI.
Read More from Dr. Collins Here:
- Addressing ethical issues in healthcare artificial intelligence using a lifecycle-informed process
- Role and Use of Race in AI/ML Models Related to Health
- Recommendations for Clinicians, Technologists, and Healthcare Organizations on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: A Position Statement from the Society of General Internal Medicine
- A Call to Partner With Communities To Hear Diverse Sociocultural Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
In this episode, focused on the utilization of AI and Machine Learning in healthcare, Tyler and Devan talk to Teresa Fair-Field, OTD, OTR, who is part of an NIH-funded team developing "Emma Baby," a smartphone application designed to detect critical motor markers in infants during their first year.
Read More Here:
Fair-Field, T., & Modayur, B. (2025). Clinical validation of an abridged AIMS: Streamlining motor screening in the first-year infant. Early Human Development, 202, Article 106207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2025.106207
Fair-Field, T., & Modayur, B. (2025). Clinical validation of an abridged AIMS: Streamlining motor screening in the first-year infant. Early Human Development, 202, Article 106207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2025.106207
In this episode we interview Dr. Lukas J. Meier about an algorithm he helped develop to help solve clinical ethics dilemmas.
Check out his team’s paper on this project here
In this episode we talk with Dr. Jeffrey P. Bishop about how AI will shape our minds and habits and how we need to rethink medical training in light of the promises and perils of AI in health care.
In this episode, we chat with Drs. Ami Palmer and David Schwan to discuss the wild west of mental health and wellness apps using AI.
Stay tuned for a link to an article on this topic written by Drs. Palmer and Schwan in May 2025 in the Hastings Center Report.
In this episode Devan and Tyler discuss the most common ethical concerns raised in the field of AI and clinical care.
In this episode, Tyler and Devan are joined by Dr. Holland Kaplan to unpack a case of sudden-onset psychosis. We discuss the complex interplay between patient autonomy, surrogate decision-making, and the nuance of invasive interventions over a patient’s objection. How do we assess decision-making capacity in an acutely altered state? What happens when a surrogate’s wishes conflict with what clinicians believe is medically necessary? And where should the line be drawn between beneficence and coercion?
Devan and Tyler sit down with Dr. David Shalowitz to unpack the ethical complexities surrounding the claim that clinical trials offer the best care for cancer patients. From the “therapeutic misconception” to the burdens and risks of trial participation, we explore what it means to balance patient-centered care with the pursuit of scientific advancement.
David Shalowitz, “Are Patients with Cancer Care Best Managed in a Clinical Trial?” JAMA 331 (24): 2077-2078.
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In this episode, Tyler and Devan are joined by Dr. Peter DePergola to explore policies addressing non-beneficial treatment requests, medical futility, and inappropriate treatment demands. Dr. DePergola, the Shaughness Family Chair for the Study of the Humanities at Elms College, is an Associate Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities with joint appointments in Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Biomedical Sciences. He also serves as Director of the Undergraduate and Graduate Bioethics and Medical Humanities Programs and Executive Director of the Saint Augustine Center for Ethics, Religion, and Culture.
Dr. DePergola shares insights from his recent policy revision work, focusing on refining the concepts and language surrounding non-beneficial treatment, futility, and related ethical challenges in medical decision-making.
In this Episode, Hospital President Dan Carey, Chief Medical Officer Barbara Ducatman, and Clinical Ethicist Jason Wasserman at Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan join Tyler and Devan to discuss their action-oriented, complex case committee work and its success.
In this episode, Stephanie Van Slyke helps us to understand DNR orders and her success in helping clinical staff understand what they mean.
In this episode Steven Squires describes an intervention into ethics education that has taken off!
In this episode we discuss another success story with Dr. Jennifer Bell who helped her medical center think about how to ration scarce CAR-T Cell cancer treatments.
In this episode we do a deep dive into the work and life of our co-host Dr. Tyler Gibb.
You asked for it, so here it is… the “Who is Dr. Stahl” episode. We do a deep dive into the path that brought Devan to where she is today.
How did she first get interested in Bioethics? Who were some of her most influential mentors? What is she currently working on?
In this episode Dr. Tim Lahey describes how he helped his institution curb violence against health care professionals.
Here’s an open access copy of Tim’s article describing his work on combating workplace violence:
https://shmpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhm.13355
In this episode, Dr. Becket Gremmels discusses a success story involving a pregnant teenager and her parents.
To learn more about Dr. Gremmels, check out his podcast Ethics Lab here: https://www.missiononline.net/ethics/ethics-lab/
In this episode, Dr. Stefano Mugnaini shares a success story about how he was able to work with wardens on behalf of incarcerated patients.
Devan and Tyler explore the Willowbrook State School, that stands as a stark symbol of the dark chapters in the history of medical ethics and public health. Willowbrook gained infamy for its association with highly controversial medical experiments conducted on children with intellectual disabilities during the mid-20th century. Led by Dr. Saul Krugman, the Willowbrook studies became emblematic of ethical questions about the treatment of vulnerable populations and the boundaries of medical research.
- “Willowbrook: The Last Disgrace” Investigative Report by Geraldo Rivera
- DuBois, J. M. (2008). A framework for analyzing ethics cases. Ethics in Mental Health Research, 45-57.
- Krugman, S. (1986). The Willowbrook Hepatitis Studies Revisited: Ethical Aspects, Reviews of Infectious Diseases, 8:1.
Dax Cowart was severely injured in an explosion in the 1970s. Despite his injuries, he expressed a strong and consistent desire not to want medical treatment for his injuries an to be allowed to die. In this episode, Tyler and Devan explore the landmark bioethics care of Dax Cowart and its importance to current questions about medical decision-making, capacity to refuse medical treatment, and disability.
Links to Sources and other Interesting Stuff:
“Dax Cowert, Who Suffered for Patient Rights, Dies at 71” The New York Times, Obituary, May 15, 2019.
Documentary: “Dax Cowart — 40 years later”
In this episode, Devan and Tyler discuss the separation surgery of conjoined twins, Mary and Jodie.
In this episode, Devan and Tyler discuss the case of Ashley X. Ashley’s parents and medical team proposed a treatment plan to attenuate Ashley’s growth that drew both praise and criticism from bioethicists.
Links to Sources:
Kristi Kirschner et al. (2009) “The Curious Case of Ashley X,” PM&R.
Ashley’s Parent’s Blog: http://www.pillowangel.org/
News reports:
- https://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/01/11/ashley.ethicist/index.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/opinion/26singer.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/mar/16/ashley-treatment-ericas-story
Tyler and Devan walk through the infamous US Supreme Court Case of Buck v Bell (1927) in this episode. Buck v Bell has a dark legacy that includes forced sterilization, eugenics, disability, and violence against women.
Further Reading:
- Wolfe, Brendan. Buck v. Bell (1927). (2021, February 12). In Encyclopedia Virginia.
- “The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement” The New Yorker, April 2016.
- Lombardo, Paul A. Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- Eugenics and Scientific Racism (2022) National Human Genomics Research Institute
- No Mas Bebes (2016) PBS Documentary
- Disability’s Challenge to Theology: Genes, Eugenics, and the Metaphysics of Modern Medicine, by Devan Stahl (University of Notre Dame Press)
In this episode, Devan and Tyler discuss the life and afterlife of Henrietta Lacks. Her cells were taken without her consent and used in tens of thousands of research experiments. We discuss what has and hasn’t changed in research ethics.
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On this episode, we delve into one of the most influential cases in bioethics, mental health to discover whether healthcare providers have a “duty to warn” patients of potential violence. Devan and Tyler explore the Tarasoff case's historical context, legal significance, and the enduring ethical and practical implications it holds for the field of psychology, mental health, and the broader legal system.
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Devan presents the fascinating and controversial case of 'Baby M' that captivated the world in the late 1980s. This landmark gestational surrogacy case raises complex questions about reproductive technology, parental rights, and who is a parent.
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Tyler (the leading expert on the Schiavo case) and Devan discuss the life and death of Terri Schiavo.
Tyler and Devan discuss their worst reviews, their favorite published sentences, and what’s to come on this season of Bioethics for the People.
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In this mini-sode, Tyler and Devan discuss the various court rulings about the drug Mifepristone and the recent decision by the Fifth Circuit regarding its status.
Read more on the developing situation here:
- Background information on the FDA approval of Mifepristone 23 years ago.
- Read about the two cases that led to the DOJ asking the Supreme Court to restore access to Mifepristone.
- Opinion letters reflecting views of people across the country.
- Key points and take-aways of the various lawsuits.
- How this ended up at the Supreme Court.
- The consequences of banning Mifepristone.
- How the Texas ruling might impact health and science.
- Information on the Texas ruling and how it changes access to Mifepristone.
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This week, Tyler and Devan discuss prolonged emergency department stays for children coming to the ER for a mental health visit, also known as “psych boarding.”
You can read more about psych boarding here or read about an observational study describing the rise of this phenomenon here.
In this mini-sode, Devan and Tyler discuss palliative terminal sedation. What is it, who can get it, and what are the rules around it?
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In this mini-sode, Tyler and Devan discuss the Biden administration's proposal to break up UNOS' monopoly on organs for transplantation.
Read more on the background of this topic here and an opinion piece here.
Understanding embryo grading. Utah Fertility Center.
In this mini-sode, Tyler and Devan discuss a recent court case where a judge partially relied on a 19th century law that treated humans as property in order to rule on whether an embryo should be considered property.
Read about the court’s use of this law here. This story was originally reported in the New York Times.
In this mini-sode, Tyler and Devan discuss match day; when fourth year medical students find out if and where they’ve matched for their residency years. It is one of the most intense, significant days in the life of aspiring physicians.
For more information about the match:
- The Match: National Residency Matching Program
- NRMP Match Algorithm Explained (Residency Application Process) (YouTube)
- Joint Statement on the Emergency Medicine 2023 Match Results (March 13, 2023) American College of Emergency Physicians
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Pacemaker overview, Mayo Clinic, https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/pacemaker/about/pac-20384689
In this mini-sode Tyler and Devan discuss whether it is ethical to turn off a pacemaker if a patient will die without it.
Links:
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What is a pacemaker?
- https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/pacemaker/about/pac-20384689
- Ethical considerations in managing pacemakers (“4.5 million people worldwide live with an implanted pacemaker…”)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5349811/pdf/bumc0030-0157.pdf
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In this mini-sode Devan and Tyler discuss whether it is ethical to provide vasectomies to 18-year-old mean who request them.
More reading on young men embracing vasectomies:
- https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20221024-vasectomy-the-us-men-embracing-permanent-birth-control
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/well/vasectomy-contraception-abortion.html
In this mini-sode Devan and Tyler discuss a proposed bill that would reduce prisoners’ sentences if they donate organs or bone marrow. What could go wrong?
In this mini-sode Tyler and Devan talk with ChatGPT to ask if it wants to take our jobs! You may be surprised at the answer.
Season 4 is over, but Devan and Tyler are here to wrap things up. What was most memorable? What lessons did we learn? Tune in to find out!
In this episode Devan talks about a case of a man whose family is making disturbing choices, and (twist!) it’s not clear they are even the correct decision makers.
Dr. Birgitta Sujdak Mackiewicz shares a haunting clinical ethics consultation case that raises issues about advance care planning, the preferences of a patient and surrogate decision-makers, and religious commitments. Every patient brings with them a complex set of interests, wishes, values, and commitments. How should healthcare decisions be made when these all come into conflict?
Dr. Birgitta Sujdak Mackiewicz, PhD, is the Regional Director of Ethics at OSF Healthcare, in Central Illinois. She has a doctorate in Healthcare Ethics from the Gneagi Center for Healthcare Ethics at Saint Louis University. Before taking on a Regional role, she was the Director of Ethics at OSFHC Saint Francis Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of Illinois for 15 years.
Some of Dr. Mackiewicz’s Publications:
- Birgitta Sujdak Mackiewicz & Stephen Thompson (2017) When Trust in God Means Preemptive Refusal of C-Section, The American Journal of Bioethics, 17:1, 94-96, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2016.1251639
- Birgitta N. Sujdak Mackiewicz (2016) Good Ethics Begin With Good Facts, The American Journal of Bioethics, 16:7, 66-68, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2016.1180447
More Reading about Jehovah’s Witness Beliefs and Healthcare:
- Thomas McCormick (2008) Ethical Issues Inherent to Jehovah’s Witnesses, Perioperative Nursing Clinics, 3:3, 253-258 DOI: 10.1016/j.cpen.2008.04.007
- West, James M.. Ethical issues in the care of Jehovah's Witnesses. Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology 27(2):p 170-176, April 2014. | DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0000000000000053
- Ally McInroy, Blood transfusion and Jehovah’s Witnesses: the Legal and Ethical Issues, British Journal of Nursing, 14:5 DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2005.14.5.17663
Audio Block Double-click here to upload or link to a .mp3. Learn more In this Episode, Devan and Tyler discuss a challenging case that centers on a pregnant woman, a suspicion of cancer, and lots of uncertainty about what should be done. Although a common topic of discussion in the classroom, actual cases of maternal-fetal conflicts are relatively unusual. This is a case of a true conflict between a mother's interest and the interests of her unborn child.
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Audio Block Double-click here to upload or link to a .mp3. Learn more Dr. Barrie Huberman joins Devan and Tyler to discuss a haunting ethics consultation involving a conflict about providing life prolonging medical treatment to a patient who attempted to commit suicide.
*Content Warning: This episode includes discussion of suicide and a description of an individual who becomes critically ill after a suicide attempt.
Dr. Barrie Huberman, PhD, is the Clinical Director of Medical Ethics, and Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her training is in Clinical Psychology and prior to moving to current position, she was the Director of Clinical Ethics at Lennox Hill Hospital in New York City since 1992. Dr. Huberman is also directly involved in training future clinical ethicists through the 2-year clinical ethics fellowship in the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College and the New York Presbyterian Healthcare System.
Publications:
- Building an Organizational Ethics Program on a Clinical Ethics Foundation. The Journal of Clinical Ethics (2020).
- Phases of a Pandemic Surge: The Experience of an Ethics Service in New York City during COVID-19. The Journal of Clinical Ethics (2020)
- The Work of ASBH's Clinical Ethics Consultation Affairs Committee: Development Processes Behind Our Educational Materials. The Journal of Clinical Ethics (2018).
Kevin Dirksen, senior director of the Providence Center for Health Care Ethics,brings a haunting clinical ethics case that highlights the complexity of navigating disagreements between patients, family members, and the healthcare team.
*Kevin Dirksen is senior director of the Providence Center for Health Care Ethics and the Andy & Bev Honzel Endowed Chair in Applied Health Care Ethics. His role includes working with the internal medicine and family medicine residency programs in ethics education, as well as providing clinical and organizational ethics consultation throughout the Oregon Region of Providence St. Joseph Health. In addition to day-to-day oversight of the Center, its team, and its operations, Kevin engages in clinical ethics research and scholarship: representing the work of the Center in professional publications and conferences.*
Kevin has published in international, peer-reviewed publications on topics including decision-making capacity, clinical ethics consultation, end-of-life care, scarce resource allocation, and public health ethics. He has lectured on a range of ethical topics in patient care and health policy and has presented at national and international conferences.
Kevin holds an advanced graduate degree in biomedical ethics and a professional graduate degree in theology, specializing in ethics and health. He completed two years of clinical training in health care ethics at the UCLA Health Ethics Center as the Arny & Anne Porath Clinical Ethics Fellow and Senior Clinical Ethics Fellow. He has also earned the Healthcare Ethics Consultant Certification designation from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities’ Health Care Ethics Consultation (HCEC) Certification Commission.
A native to the Pacific Northwest, Kevin and his wife now live in their hometown with their four children. For fun, Kevin excels at stumbling through D-I-Y house projects, watching Seattle Mariners baseball, and reading classics with his children.
Read More from Kevin Dirksen:
- Joseph W. Kaempf & Kevin M. Dirksen (2022) The Birth of Tragedy? Extremely Premature Births and Shared Decision-Making, The American Journal of Bioethics, 22:11, 59-66, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2022.2123981
- Kevin M. Dirksen, Joseph W. Kaempf & Nicholas J. Kockler (2020) Periviability in a Pandemic: Good Ethics Still Considered Essential, The American Journal of Bioethics, 20:7, 177-180, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2020.1779394
- Carol Pavlish, Katherine Brown-Saltzman, Kevin M. Dirksen & Alyssa Fine (2015) Physicians’ Perspectives on Ethically Challenging Situations: Early Identification and Action, AJOB Empirical Bioethics, 6:3, 28-40, DOI: 10.1080/23294515.2014.972527
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Audio Block Double-click here to upload or link to a .mp3. Learn more In this episode, Tyler and Devan talk with Dr. Laura Guidry-Grimes about a case in which a medical team has to decide whether being a victim of domestic abuse disqualifies a patient from receiving an organ transplant.
*Content Warning: This episode discusses the reality of domestic abuse, but with no description of any abusive events.
Relevant publications:
Knoepke et al. 2022. “Variation in Left Ventricular Assist Device Postdischarge Caregiver Requirements: Results From a Mixed-Methods Study with Equity Implications,” Circ Heart Fail Aug; 15(8):e009583
In this episode, our first international guest! Dra. María Susana Ciruzzi (Suzie) tells us about a story from Buenos Aires of a young woman with a chronic illness who asks her doctors to help her die. Learn more about how the medical team responded to a request they couldn’t honor from a patient they knew well.
In this episode, Tyler and Devan talk to Dr. Jessica Turnbull about a difficult case involving an infant with a severe brain injury.
In this episode Dr. Abram Brummett discusses whether it is ever justifiable to deceive patients. He brings to us a case in which direct lying to a patient may have been in her best interest. Do you agree?
In this episode Darian Goldin Stahl walks us through a spooky scene with a surprise twist!
Devan and Tyler interview UnConference participants to ask, "What makes a great clinical ethicist?" and "What is the Best part of being a clinical ethicist?"
Tyler and Devan interview presenters at the UnConference in Clinical Ethics.
Several articles arising from the 2022 Unconference are anticipated to be published in the Winter 2022 issue of The Journal of Clinical Ethics. Articles from prior Unconferences can be found in the Fall 2019 and Fall 2020 issues of The Journal of Clinical Ethics.
Tyler and Devan meet with the planners and originators of the UnConferences in Clinical Ethics and hear about their goals and intentions for the UnConference. We also discuss how the UnConference is unique and valuable.
In this special, mini-season of Bioethics for the People, we are focusing on the “UnConference” in Clinical Ethics, hosted by Wellstar Health in Atlanta.
What is an an UnConference? Stay tuned because we are going deep into the UnConference, its origins and goals, and interview planners and participants.
Episodes will be available in August.
https://www.wellstar.org/about-us/ethics-program/unconference
In this special crossover episode, Tyler and Devan team up with the team at Bioethics in the Margins for our annual Top 10 list of neglected issues in bioethics.
You are what you eat? In this episode, Devan and Tyler talk with Profs Amy Lewis and Enza Rocco about food, animals, food justice, and bioethics.
Dr. Harold Braswell shares his research into the history of US hospice system and reforms that could improve how we die in America.
In 2003, Britney Spears, the superstar pop singer, had all of her legal rights taken away from her and given to her father. Over the past decade, a concerted effort has been underway to #FreeBritney. The process that led to her ability to make decisions for herself is called guardianship or conservatorship. In this episode, Devan and Tyler talk through the process, the reasons it is helpful for many individuals and patients, and also the potential issues that arise when someone’s legal power to direct their own lives is upset.
Dr. Michael Deem joins us to explore religion, theology, and religious exemptions to mandatory COVID-19 vaccine requirements.
What is going on with COVID-19 vaccine mandates? Are vaccine mandates legal or ethical? Exemptions— are those allowed and what are they?
Professor Elizabeth Pendo, an expert on health law, disability rights, and bioethics at Saint Louis University School of Law, helps us understand what is going on with COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Prof. Pendo talks about the reasons why employers might create a requirement for a vaccine, and also what rights employees have.
Check out more from the episode and Prof Pendo’s work below:
- COVID-19 Employee Health Checks, Remote Work, and Disability Law
- Resolving Tensions Between Disability Rights Law and COVID-19 Mask Policies
- Yang, Y. Tony and Pendo, Elizabeth and Reiss, Dorit Rubinstein, The Americans with Disabilities Act and Healthcare Employer-Mandated Vaccinations. 38(16) Vaccine 3184 (Apr. 3, 2020), UC Hastings Research Paper No. 390, Saint Louis U. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-12, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3614824
- Pendo, Elizabeth, Protecting the Rights and Wellbeing of People with Disabilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic (February 15, 2021). Burris, S., de Guia, S., Gable, L., Levin, D.E., Parmet, W.E., Terry, N.P. (Eds.) (2021). COVID-19 Policy Playbook: Legal Recommendations for a Safer, More Equitable Future. Boston: Public Health Law Watch., Saint Louis U. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2021-12, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3812630
In the first ever repeat guest appearance on the Podcast, the amazingly talented and sassy fan favorite, Dr. Darian Goldin Stahl, joins Tyler and Devan again for a spooky ooky Halloween episode. Will there be books bound in human skin? Will there be Murder and Mayhem? Will Darian tell us another ghost story? Check out the episode to find out.
This week Tyler and Devan talk with Dr. Travis Rieder about opioids, addiction, and a motor cycle accident that chanced his life.
Tyler and Devan interview Martha Gershun and Dr. John Lantos about their new book, Kidney to Share.
We are doing things a little differently this season. Join us to hear about new and exciting topics in bioethics, health care, medicine, and society! As always, we are keeping it conversational, fun, and accessible.
Darian Goldin Stahl, “Glory,” Water transfer, 30” x 22,” 2021.
The rollout of the COVID19 vaccine has been…interesting, to say the least. There have been many news stories about folks jumping in line to get their vaccines. Is this ever ethical? What should you do if you are given an opportunity for a vaccine, but don’t feel like you should? Devan and Tyler talk about some of the hiccups in the vaccine roll out.
- “The Vaccine had to be Used. He Used It. He was Fired,” The New York Times (Feb 10, 2021).
- “How People are Jumping the COVID-19 Vaccine Line,” NPR News (Feb 9, 2021).
- “Line-Jumping to get COVID-19 vaccine could be costly, to someone else,” WWMT News (Feb 8, 2021).
- “Is It Ever OK to Jump Ahead in the Vaccine Line?” NPR News (Feb 6, 2021)
This episode features Devan’s famous TikTok dancing, and, perhaps more interestingly, Dr. Alyssa Burgart about professionalism, medical education, bioethics, and host of other topics.
Dr. Burgart specializes in pediatric anesthesia and pediatric abdominal transplant anesthesia. She has special interest in transplantation, PANS/PANDAS, spinal muscular atrophy, and trauma. Dr. Burgart is committed to finding the most successful way for each child to interact with the anesthesia team, in order to create an overall positive experience. She champions a program specifically supporting children with unique needs, such as those with sensory integration differences. Dr. Burgart has a joint appointment in the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, serves as the Co-Chair of the LPCH Ethics Committee and as a member of the SHC Ethics Committee. She provides ethics consultation services for people of all ages. Her ethics interests include pediatric ethics, organ transplantation, communication skills, disability rights, women's healthcare access, adolescent decision-making, ethics education, and excellence in ethics consultation. She also is active on Twitter @BurgartBioethix
Read More of Dr. Burgart’s work below:
- “Vaccinate Me, But not First,” (Bioethics.net)
- “Poorly Conducted Science is Unprofessional,” (Journal of Vascular Surgery)
- “Machine-Learning Implementation in Clinical Anesthesia: Opportunities and Challenges,” (Anesthesia & Analgesia)
- “Fairness and Transparency in an Expanded Access Program: Allocation of the only treatment for SMA1,” (American Journal of Bioethics)
In this episode, Devan and Tyler discuss how vaccine distribution is going and whether or not it is ethical to mandate people to take the vaccine.
Some folks may be surprised that in many hospitals across the country there are ethicists wandering the halls. In this episode, Tyler and Devan chat with Dr. Virginia Bartlett about clinical ethics. Who are clinical ethicists, what do they do, when would they be involved in the care of patients?
Read more of Dr. Bartlett’s published work here:
- “Retrieving the Moral in the Ethics of Maternal-Fetal Surgery: A Response to ‘Fetal Repair of Open Neural Tube Defects’ by Radic, Illes, McDonald” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (2020)
- “When the Fall is All There is…”: Refocusing on the Critical (Unique?) Characteristics of “Dying” in Physician Aid-in-Dying, American Journal of Bioethics (2019)
- “Exploring Clinical Ethics’ Past to Imagine its Possible Futures(s)” American Journal of Bioethics (2018)
In this Episode, Devan and Tyler link up with Brian Doak and Leah Payne, co-hosts of the award-winning Weird Religion podcast. They all discuss futurists, transhumanism, the afterlife, and the Amazon Prime series “Upload.”
- Check out other episodes from Weird Religion podcast here
- ‘UpLoad’ on Amazon Prime is available here.
- Read more about Futurism and Transhumanism here.
- “Will A Transplanted Hand Feel Like His Own? Surgery Raises Questions” (2015, NPR).
In this episode Tyler and Devan discuss plans for distributing the new Covid vaccine and who counts as a “healthcare worker” in phase 1a of the rollout.
Devan and Tyler talk about religion in medicine, including what it’s like to work as a hospital chaplain and the ways patients bring up religion in the hospital. They also talk with professor Patrick Smith about how he came into bioethics from his training in Christian ethics and social justice.
Devan & Tyler talk about the ethical issues raised in an Atlantic Monthly article entitled: “The Last Children of Down syndrome.”
In this special episode, Tyler and Devan discuss the basics of human subjects research, including the ethical challenges in Covid-19 challenge trials.
Devan and Tyler catch-up with Prof Jason Wasserman and discuss bioethics, social science, and Wasserman's work with people experiencing homelessness.
What counts as “bioethics”? What perspectives and topics have been marginalized? In this episode, Devan and Tyler talk with Professor Keisha Ray about her work in black bioethics and why it is necessary.
In this episode, Devan and Tyler check-in with professor Tom Tomlinson to discuss some of the misconceptions and myths that surround end of life decision-making and clinical ethics.
In this week’s true-crime-adjacent Halloween special, Tyler and Devan talk to Darian Goldin Stahl about the infamous grave robbers William Burke and William Hare.
This episode we discuss the future of a Covid vaccine and why anyone wouldn't want to be first in line once the vaccine is distributed. We discuss vaccine hesitancy with Mark Navin.
This episode, Tyler and Devan recount their experiences at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. They interview professor Ana Iltis, the current president of the ASBH, about how she became a bioethicist and who comes to the ASBH.
This episode, Tyler and Devan discuss how their role as bioethicists has changed during the pandemic. They talk with Matthew Wynia about his work in bioethics and his predictions of what will change in bioethics as a result of Covid-19