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12/7/08 Interview 2

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Part 2: Difficult Decisions In Health Care. The first in a series of interviews on ethical dilemmas and difficult decisions in health care considers end-of-life issues with Geriatrician Sharon Brangman MD and Bioethicist Gregory Eastwood MD.

Health Information Center Resources for Making Ethical Healthcare Decisions:

Books

• Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Artificial Feeding, Comfort Care, and the Patient with a Life-Threatening Illness. By Hank Dunn. VA: A & A Pub., 2005.
• Planning for Uncertainty: Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for You and Your Family. By David John Doukas, William Reichel. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Books available through bookstores and libraries, including the Health Information Center and Amazon.com.

Other

• Family Caregiver Alliance website
• Caring Connections website
• Hospice website, for patients and families facing life-threatening illness.
• Case Studies on Healthcare Ethics, from the Center for Practical Bioethics.
• Bioethics Case Studies, from McGraw Hill.

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• by e-mail at medicalethics at upstate.edu
• by phone at 315.464.4545 (toll free 877.464.4545)
• or mail to: Medical Ethics - HLOA, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse NY 13210.

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