bioethics resources?

[deleted555445]

anyone have any good articles or resources to read up on bioethics and medical ethics at a time like this? particularly how to decide between two patients if you only have on ventilator?

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[LizzyM]

There is literature on access to hemodialysis in Seattle in the 1960s. The machines were in short supply due to very limited reimbursement for treatment so a "God Committee" was established. Dig around and see what you can find about what they did and how they did it.

 

[Cornfed101]

The best resource I have found is from UWash.

Ethics in Medicine | UW Department of Bioethics & Humanities

The Resource Allocation section seems applicable.

 

[LizzyM]

Also see this Covid-19 specific site from the Hastings Center, a very well regarded source for opinons on bioehical questions.

Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions & Guidelines for Institutional Ethics Services Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Managing Uncertainty, Safeguarding Communities, Guiding Practice Download as PDF Nancy Berlinger, PhD; Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH; Tia Powell, MD; D. Micah

www.thehastingscenter.org

 

[deleted555445]

Those are great, thanks! They mention the Seattle hemodialysis case in the UW Resource Allocation page. I found the futility page also very interesting.