Ethical Issues in the Hospital with John Hofer and Hong Lee of Salem Hospital

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Mon, 12/14/2015 - 11:30am to 12:00pm
Ethical Issues in the Hospital with John Hofer and Hong Lee of Salem Hospital

Health and Health Care Forum with host Roberta Hall

Is the public aware that most hospitals have clinical ethicists, or a medical ethics committee, or both, to help hospital employees, as well as patients and their families and friends, deal constructively with ethical issues that may come up when patients are being treated?  In case it is not, here is a conversation between host Roberta Hall, of KBOO’s health and health care forum, and 2 ethicists at Salem Hospital about this topic.  Both men have doctorates in philosophy and are dedicated to understanding patients and their wishes concerning treatment.  John Hofer has been serving for 26 years as a volunteer on Salem Hospital’s ethics committee, and Hong Lee for the past three years has been Salem Hospital’s on-staff clinical ethicist.
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