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July 5, 2018

BioethicsTV (June 27-July 4): #CodeBlack

Code Black (Season 3; Episode 10): Patients Asking Doctors to Lie to Family Members; Code Black (Season 3; Episode 11): Law enforcement pressuring nurse for blood draw

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.…

June 4, 2018

BioethicsTV (May 30, 2018): #CodeBlack Patient racism and DNRs

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

Code Black (Season 3; Episode 5): Patient Racism

A middle-aged-white patient needs an appendectomy. As he is being wheeled to surgery, he is beside the chief of surgery and a new trauma surgery resident.…

May 22, 2018

BioethicsTV (May 14-22): #TheResident, #ChicagoMed

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

The Resident (Season 1; Episode 14): Treating Loved Ones; Chemo for Healthy Patients ; Chicago Med (Season 3; Episode 20): Doctor and jury

The Resident (Season 1; Episode 14): Treating Loved Ones; Chemo for Healthy Patients

In the season finale, we learn that Hunter has been telling healthy people that they have cancer (when they do not) and giving them chemotherapy.…

May 11, 2018

BioethicsTV (May 7-11): #ChicagoMed, #GreysAnatomy

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

Chicago Med (Season 3; Episode 19): Maternal-Fetal Conflict; Grey’s Anatomy (Season 14; Episode 23): Personal Disclosures of Illness

As the traditional television season comes to a close, many medical dramas have steered away from ethical dilemmas in medical care to heighten the drama among their characters in order to provide strong cliff hangers for the season finale.…

May 7, 2018

BioethicsTV (April 30 – May 4): #TheResident; #ChicagoMed

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

The Resident (Season 1; Episode 12): Pressures of the Medical Life; Making promises; Chicago Med (Season 3; Episode 18): Crisis response

The Resident (Season 1; Episode 12): Pressures of the Medical Life; Making promises

When Bradley, a resident, falls through a glass ceiling and crashes onto the board room table, Bell’s first reaction is that neither the hospital nor he are responsible for the epidemic of suicides in medicine.…

May 2, 2018

From Westworld to the Rest of the World: Time to Regulate the Mining of Third Party Data

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

You do not have control over your ideas, your passions, or even your DNA anymore. Your biological material and your ideas may be taken without your awareness of it.…

April 27, 2018

BioethicsTV (April 23-27): #TheResident, #ChicagoMed, #CodeBlack

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

The Resident (Season 1; Episode 11): Placebos, CYA, Office politics; Chicago Med (Season 3; Episode 17): Promise-making, Denial Brain death (PVS or coma); Code Black (Seasons 3; Episode 1): Do no harm, HIPAA

The Resident (Season 1; Episode 11): Placebos; CYA; Office politics

We learn that the hospital’s motto is “Incredible things are happening here.” That’s ironic because the incredible clearly isn’t meant to be seen in a positive light.…

April 24, 2018

BioethicsTV (April 16-20): #TheResident, #ChicagoMed, #GreysAnatomy

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

The Resident (Season 1; Episode 10): Self-doctoring; nonmaleficence; the problem with hospitals…; Chicago Med (Season 3; Episode 16): Compassionate lying; choosing gender; medical error; Grey’s Anatomy (Season 14; Episode 20): #METOO

The Resident (Season 1; Episode 10): Self-doctoring; nonmaleficence; the problem with hospitals…

After Conrad has a run-in with a skateboard while jogging, he hobbles into the hospital with a sprained ankle.…

April 13, 2018

BioethicsTV (April 9-13): #ChicagoMed Saving one twin; faking a license; cost of care

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

Lots of medical dramas were on hiatus this week but will be back.

Chicago Med (Season 1; Episode 15): Saving one twin; faking a license; cost of care

A set of conjoined twins comes to the ED with one of the twins in heart failure.…

April 6, 2018

BioethicsTV (April 2-6): #ChicagoMed; #GreysAnatomy

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

Chicago Med (Season 3; Episode 14): Record checking; off label use; scope of practice; Grey’s Anatomy (Season 14; Episode 18): Experimental treatment; Saying goodbye

Chicago Med (Season 3; Episode 14): Record checking; off label use; scope of practice
Psychiatry resident Dr.…