#============================================================# | CENTER FOR CLINICAL ETHICS AND HUMANITIES IN HEALTH CARE | | BIOETHICS BULLETIN | #============================================================# Editor: Tim Madigan December, 1994 Volume One, Number Two =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= MISSION STATEMENT The Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care is fundamentally devoted to the enterprise of supporting and enhancing the dialogue regarding ethical and humanistic issues in health care in the Western New York area. Its constituency includes members of area institutions of higher learning as well as health care providers and the institutions they practice in. Close coordination with hospital ethics committees as well as academic programs and research enterprises will be pursued. A monthly newsletter, monthly grand rounds and other lectures, and the development of research and reading groups, will be basic tactics in facilitating dialogue in the area. The Center will build on an already solid foundation of prior work and organization by area ethics committees, academic departments and centers, and the individual efforts and developed expertise of individual faculty and health care providers. Membership is open to all. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THE CENTER OFFICE For further information, please contact Lisa Bolten, the Center's secretary. The telephone number is 862-3609, FAX 862-3679. Mail should be sent to: The Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care c/o Gerald Logue, M.D. & Stephen Wear, Ph.D., Co-Directors VAMC, 11th Floor 3495 Bailey Avenue Buffalo, New York 14215 E-mail sent to Ms. Bolten (Lbolten@ubmedc.buffalo.edu) will be forwarded as indicated. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= PARTICIPANT DATA SHEETS The Center would like to identify the basic interests of potential participants as well as identify those who may be willing and able to assist with the development of the Center and its enterprises.If you have not filled out a participant data sheet, please contact us at the address above and we will send one to you. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= UPCOMING MEETINGS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE GRAND ROUNDS: The Committee Affairs Committee will be sponsoring an ongoing series of bioethics grand rounds at area hospitals on a monthly basis. All Center members are encouraged to attend. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Responding to the Religious and Cultural Challenge of Ethical Consultation," Friday, December 2nd, 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM. Erie County Medical Center, Smith Auditorium. Speakers: Yogesh Bakhai, M.D.; Robert Heicklen, M.S.W.; Reverend James Lewis III; Karen Maricle, R.N. During the session, members of the ECMC Ethics Committee will: provide a brief description of the unique "rotating teams" approach to consultation developed at ECMC (i.e., all committee members consult on one of four multi-disciplinary teams); and present two cases where the ethical issues involved pose additional concerns in terms of religious and cultural diversity among patients, caregivers and/or family members. For information please contact Karen Maricle at 898-3101. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support: Dilemmas at the Beginning and the End of Life: Two Case Studies," Wednesday, January 25th, 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM. Sisters of Charity Hospital, Board Room. For information please contact Father Richard Zajac at 862-2000. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Issues of Informed Consent for Bone Marrow Transplant in a Developmentally Disabled Patient," Monday, February 13, 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM. Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Administrative Conference Room, Main Hospital, 5 East. For information please contact Catherine Lyons at 845-3122. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPCOMING LECTURES ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "Clinical Ethics and Ambulatory Care," Wednesday, February 1st, 8:00 AM. UB South Campus, Beck Hall. Presenter: Jack Freer, MD. For further information please contact Dr. Freer at 862-6611. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= BIOETHICS ON-LINE HUBNET (Hospitals and UB Network) provides local and Internet computer access to the University Health Sciences community, and affiliated teaching hospitals. Center members are eligible for HUBNET accounts, and will find a variety of seful resources available. The Health Sciences Gopher server will soon be operational, and will have a section devoted to the Center. HUBNET has now added BIOETHICSLINE to its existing bibliographic databases (including MEDLINE and AIDSLINE). BIOETHICSLINE is a joint service of the National Library of Medicine and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. It has always been the standard reference resource in bioethics, but has been cumbersome to use unless one was familiar with technical search commands. The version on HUBNET, however, is easy to use. Contact Jack Freer (jfreer@ubmedb.buffalo.edu) for questions about HUBNET or BIOETHICSLINE. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THE CENTER AND THE GOPHER The Internet Gopher is a document delivery service. It allows users to explore, search and retrieve information residing in different locations on the Internet. Gopher information appears as a series of menus, with many sub directories and files. The Center will be allocated an area on the new medical school Gopher scheduled to begin operation in the near future. It can be accessed from any other UB Gopher (WINGS, ACSU, etc.) or from a list of New York Gophers. The root menu is expected to include the following sections: University at Buffalo Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care 1. About the Center. 2. Center Newsletter. 3. Teaching Biomedical Ethics. 4. Calendar of Events. 5. WNY Institutional Ethics Committee Network. 6. Bioethics Law in New York State. 7. Other Bioethics Resources. 8. Other Medical Humanities Resources. 9. User Evaluation. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY CENTER MEMBERS Jonathan Moreno, Review of Informed Consent: Patient Autonomy and Physician Beneficence Within Clinical Medicine by Stephen Wear, Ph.D. (Clinical Ethics Series, Vol. 4), Dordrecht, Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993 (xii + 167 pp.), in Hospital Ethics Committee Forum 1994, 6(4): 323-325. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Center is collecting publications from its members to have on file. If you have published an article or book dealing with medical ethics issues in the past 5 years, please send a copy to the Center. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS Your comments and suggestions regarding this newsletter are encouraged. Please send them to the Center address, or by e-mail to the newsletter editor, Tim Madigan - timmadigan@aol.com. We also need information on upcoming events that would be of interest to Center members. The deadline for the next newsletter is December 15th. ==============================================================================