Essential Ethics, from the Children’s Bioethics Centre at The Royal Children’s Hospital (Melbourne, Australia) presents discussion of challenging cases that come up when treating children. Hear the most up-to-date thinking and draw knowledge from the ethics toolkit. After a decade or more of experience our team of world-recognised ethicists takes on the hardest cases. Essential Ethics is informative, interesting and always relevant. Hosted by Professor John Massie, a clinician and bioethicist at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.
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Essential Ethics, from the Children’s Bioethics Centre at The Royal Children’s Hospital (Melbourne, Australia) presents discussion of challenging cases that come up when treating children. Hear the most up-to-date thinking and draw knowledge from the ethics toolkit. After a decade or more of experience our team of world-recognised ethicists takes on the hardest cases. Essential Ethics is informative, interesting and always relevant. Hosted by Professor John Massie, a clinician and bioethicist at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.
Transition to adult services is an important step for patients who have been cared for in a children’s hospital or by a paediatrician. This is a process (transition) rather than an event (transfer) and takes both time and careful curation for the young person and their parents. The goal is to help develop the young person as an independent medical decision-maker at the same time as facilitating the parents’ role to switch from parent to patient advocate. There are many barriers to transition: willingness of the clinician to ‘let-go’; the patient's and parents' fears about a new environment and healthcare team; difficultly of the young person stepping-up into a role as independent decision-maker; difficulty of the parent ‘letting-go’ or shifting roles, and perhaps a poorly established medical service for young people with complex healthcare needs. Nevertheless, the process of transition needs to occur to promote the autonomy and best interests of the child and, in a call to justice, to make room for younger children who need paediatric services. Host: Prof John Massie. Guest: Evelyn Culnane, RCH Transition Service. Ethicist: Prof Clare Delany, Children’s Bioethics Centre, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Essential Ethics
Essential Ethics, from the Children’s Bioethics Centre at The Royal Children’s Hospital (Melbourne, Australia) presents discussion of challenging cases that come up when treating children. Hear the most up-to-date thinking and draw knowledge from the ethics toolkit. After a decade or more of experience our team of world-recognised ethicists takes on the hardest cases. Essential Ethics is informative, interesting and always relevant. Hosted by Professor John Massie, a clinician and bioethicist at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.