Focus
Upcoming
Tuesday, May 14
Ethics Forum:
Death, Assisted Suicide, and the Double Effect: Why Oregon Matters
Presenters:
Susan Block, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Robert Burt, Yale Law School
Nicholas Christakis, Harvard Medical School
Linda Ganzini, Oregon Health and Sciences University
Eric Krakauer, Massachusetts General Hospital
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Carl Walter Amphitheater
Tosteson Medical Education Center
Harvard Medical School
Reception to follow. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu
As the courts decide the future of assisted suicide in Oregon following Attorney General John Ashcroft's challenge of the law, it is necessary to ask how what happens in Oregon effects the practice of medicine elsewhere. This panel discussion will explore what is going on in Oregon, the status of the legal challenge, and how the controversy is influencing end-of-life care and pain management in Boston and across the country.
Sponsored by the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care and the Division of Medical Ethics.