The Daniel Labby Senior Clinicians' Seminar Series
The Daniel Labby Senior Clinicians' Seminar Series provide guidance in several areas: patient care, teaching, and research. Dr. Labby's vision in conceiving and moderating these seminars taps the practical experience of Senior Clinicians in our community. This wisdom is distilled into new ethics education and health care policy here and across the country. The seminars cover a wide variety of current ethical issues and have come to involve physicians, nurse, social workers, researchers, and many others. They have been held twice annually since inception in 1989.
Discussion Topics Since The Seminar Series' Inception In 1989
#33 May 10, 2006: Conscientious Objection: When Patients' Wishes and Healthcare Professionals' Values Collide
#32 October 19, 2005: Duty to Treat: Physicians Putting Themselves in Harm's Way; Presenters: Carey Critchlow J.D and Geoffrey Gordon, MD
#31 April 20, 2005: Doctors in Trouble and Patients at Risk: Identifying the Physician Whose Disruptive Behavior Threatens Patient Safety; Presenter: Kent Neff, MD
#30 October 20, 2004: Professionalism: Teaching Communication as a Clinical Skill; Presenter: Geoffrey Gordon, MD
#29 April 28, 2004: Sex Selection: Ethical Issues in Gender-Guided Decision-Making; Presenter: Joanna Cain, MD
#28 October 29, 2003: Hastening Death by Not Eating or Drinking While You Can: Clinical and Hospital Experience; Panelists: Linda Ganzini, MD, MPH; Marian Hodges, MD, MPH; Ann Jackson, MBA
#27 May 8, 2003: Conventional Medicine and Complementary/Alternative Medicine: Partners or Poor Relations?; Panelists: Karen Adams, MD; Kathleen Haley, JD; Edward Keenan, PhD
#26 October 16, 2002: Medical Mistakes II: Correcting the Errors of Our Ways; Panelists: James Tuchschmidt, MM, MD; Larry Veltman, MD; Susan Tolle, MD
#25 May 8, 2002: Medical Mistakes I: The Errors of Our Ways; Panelists: Christine Cassel, MD; Susan Tolle, MD; Rod Norton, JD
#24 October 24, 2001: Are Coercive Medical Practices Ever Ethical?: Caring for Aging & Impaired Patients Whose High-Risk Behaviors are a Danger to Themselves and to Community Safety; Panelists: Ken Brummel-Smith, MD; Eric Walsh, MD; Clifford Singer, MD; Stephen Schneider, JD
#22 October 17, 2000: Is On-Line Medicine Getting Out-of-Line?: Computer Threats to the Doctor/Patient Relationship; Presenter: George Porter, MD
#21 May 10, 2000: Gene Therapy: Where are the Ethical Boundaries for Researchers and Clinicians?; Panelists: Karen Adams, MD; Robb Moses, MD; Gerald Schatten, PhD
#20 October 27, 1999: Bioethical Issues in Organ Transplantation: Who Shall Live? Who Shall Pay? Who Shall Decide?; Presenters: Margaret Allee, RN, MS, JD; John Rabkin, MD
#19 May 12, 1999: Threats to the Privacy of Patient Information: What is Happening to Confidentiality?; Presenter: John Benson, Jr., MD
#18 October 28, 1998: Bioethical Controversies During End-of-Life Care; Presenter: Paul Bascom, MD
#17 May 13, 1998: Have the Assisted Reproductive Technologies Become Too Successful?; Presenter: E. Paul Kirk, MD
#16 October 23, 1997: AIDS & Confidentiality and Euthanasia & Disciplinary Action; Presenter: Janet Billups, JD
#15 May 14, 1997: When Doctors Take Over: Patient Rights vs. Doctors' Privileges; Presenter: Barbara Glidewell, MBS; Miles Edwards, MD
#14 October 23, 1996: Confessions and Disclosures: Doctors' Mistakes and Secrets
#13 April 17, 1996: Chronic Illness, Managed Care, and Ethics: Multiple Problems, Multiple Costs, Multiple Dilemmas; Presenter: Ken Brummel-Smith, MD
#12 November 1, 1995: Ethical Issues Surrounding Assisted Reproductive Technologies; Panelists: E. Paul Kirk, MD; Kenneth Burry, MD; Jan Gorrill, MD; Don Wolf, MD
#11 April 20, 1995: Medical Futility: Deciding When Enough is Enough; Panelists: Nancy Binder, MD; Mark Merkens, MD; John Reynolds, MD; Victor Menashe, MD
#10 October 6, 1994: Bioethical Issues in the Design of a National Health Plan: Confidentiality, Advocacy, Conflict of Interest, and Justice: Panelists: John Benson, Jr., MD; Patrick Dunn, MD; Susan Tolle, MD; Michael Garland, DScRel
#9 April 7, 1994: Doctor Power: Use and Abuse; Presenters: Jocelyn White, MD; Robert Goldman, MD
#8 September 23, 1993: The Doctor as an Ethicist; Presenters: Joseph Paquet, MD; Susan Tolle, MD
#6 April 8, 1992: Deception in Medical Care: Use and Abuse?
#5 September 30, 1992: Secrets: The Doctor's, the Patient's, the Family's, and the Friend's
#4 September 3, 1991: Professional Ethics Across the Generations: Is There a Place for Euthanasia?
#3 March 13 1991: Management of the Dying Patient
(Data on the first three seminars is unavailable.)