The First Ten Years
Ethical issues in health care pose some of the most challenging questions that health professionals ever face. And the questions change - each advancement in technology, each new piece of legislation - can bring a fresh barrage of vexing ethical dilemmas for health professionals and society at large.
The OHSU Center for Ethics in Health Care was established in 1989 to address these pressing concerns by seeking solutions through collaboration, scholarly debate and research among many disciplines. The ultimate goals of the Center are to promote more careful attention to the rights and dignity of individual patients and to increase the participation of health care professionals in this society's search for just and prudent health policies.
The Founders Board of the Center, which hangs near the entrance and lists the major donors that helped initiate the Center, carries in large letters two of the Center's core values:
"Health care with compassion"
"Together, we are wiser than any one of us alone."
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