Top Ten Things Clinical Ethicists Need to Know About VSED | Harborview Ethics Forum

Top Ten Things Clinical Ethicists Need to Know About VSED

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Speaker

Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C

Dr. Pope is a foremost expert on medical law and clinical ethics. He focuses on patient rights and healthcare decision making, especially at the end of life.

A fellow of the Hastings Center and previously both a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Health Law, Policy, and Ethics at the University of Ottawa, and a visiting scholar at the Brocher Foundation in Switzerland; Pope is now a Professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
 

Objectives

• Explain ethical and legal duties of clinicians when a capacitated patient wants to hasten her death by voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED).
• Evaluate ethical and legal duties of clinicians when presented with an advance directive directing stopping eating and drinking (VSED) on behalf of an incapacitated patient