Catholic Health Initiatives produces the EthicsLab Podcast. This show explores current health care ethics issues with national experts to provide better knowledge and practical results. I was delighted to be a guest late last year.The most recent episode was "Beyond Capacity: Assessing Challenging Cases." One of the challenging areas in clinical practice today is wanting to honor patient wishes but not being clear on the competency or capacity level a patient with dementia or behavioral health issues. In this episode the guests explored different challenging situations that ask: a) What is the best assessment of capacity? b) What level of risk should be supported? c) How might health care professionals approach these situations at a deeper human level?
Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Department of PsychiatrySherri Boggs, Quality, Patient Safety & Education Manager, Our Lady of Peace Hospital
Dr. Stephen Post, international speaker, best selling author and the Director for the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University
Dr. Ali Abbas Asghar-Ali, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
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