Pediatric Ethics Podcast

In this panel interview, Dr. Jeremy Garrett and Vanessa Watkins, MPH, discuss the decisions parents are facing regarding sending their children to school and what the best approach is for their child's education.

Dr. Phoebe Danziger discusses the possible pushback from a COVID-19 vaccine, and how to overcome doubts of the safety and efficacy of a new vaccine.

Dr. Nathaniel Beers discusses the ethical, epidemiological, economic, and emotional issues surrounding the conversation on whether or not children should return to school or resume online learning.

Dr. Shari Barkin shares what the next phase of COVID-19 will look like, what society has learned, and where society all goes from here.

Dr. Erica Salter joins Dr. Lantos to discuss the arguments for and against the best interest standard.

Susan Wootton, MD discusses COVID-19 and the issues that parents and children are facing as we move towards the fall and the new school year.

The UK was hit hard by COVID-19.  One of the UK's leading bioethicists, Dr. Dominic Wilkinson from Oxford University, will talk about some of the decision makings that was crucial to getting through the crisis.

Dr. Louis Bell shares what the pediatricians at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have learned from the pandemic and how they can move forward.

Dr. George Hardart shares what it is like in New York City, the epicenter of COVID-19 in the United States.

Dr. Annie Janiver shares her personal story of having her daughter Violette born at 23 weeks of gestation and spend some time in the NICU.  Dr. Janvier discusses her book about what it was like to be a patient in the unit where she had long been an attending physician.

Dr. Stephanie Deutsch explains what to do when parents are suspected of abuse and their child needs some urgent decisions made during the pandemic.

Dr. Erin Dashka-Talati Paquette shares how pandemics raise unique ethical issues.

Dr. Amy Caruso Brown discusses ethical decisions and communication strategies during a pandemic.

Dr. Doug Diekema has been working with a state planning task force and will talk about how they are thinking about the state's needs in dealing with COVID-19.

Katie Watson, JD discusses the 2018 Professor Watson published Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion with Oxford University Press.

Dr. Laura Miller-Smith discusses the case of Tinslee Lewis, a baby in Texas who is at the center of a controversy about medical futility.

Sarah DiGregorio shares her personal story of going into premature labor, what she went through with a baby in the NICU, and what lead her into researching how NICU's came about.

Professor Groll proposes four models for thinking about how to balance the interests of parents, families, and a sick child.

Dr. Steve Leuthner discusses the ethical questions surrounding advances in prenatal diagnosis and in-utero treatment of fetuses.

Dr. Daniel Brudney explains some doctors refuse to provide certain medical treatments to their patients because they have a conscientious objection to those treatments. However, should all objections to treatment be honored?  Where are the limits between professional obligations and personal beliefs?

Dr. Jeremy Garrett shares why some parents would want to get their children's genetics screened and sequenced. However, is it beneficial for the children?