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Parents, kids and health care decisions with Amy Brown, MD and Bry Moore, PhD on Upstate's The Informed Patient podcast

Ethical conundrum: When parents make decisions about medical care for their kids

Parents are usually the ones making health care decisions for their children. But what if a parent makes a decision that will end up harming the child? A pair of researchers explore parental reasoning in health care decision making in a paper that was published recently in The American Journal of Bioethics. Amy Brown, MD, is an associate professor of both pediatrics and of bioethics and humanities at Upstate, and Bry Moore, PhD, is an assistant professor in the department of health humanities and bioethics at the University of Rochester. They explain their research and some of the reasons parents may make certain decisions.

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