Medical Ethics and Humanities is a program within the Division of General Internal Medicine. Our mission is to prepare physicians to provide respectful, humane patient care, to address current ethical problems in health care through research and discussion and to engage with providers, patients, and families to resolve their ethical conflicts. We use relevant medicine, law, moral reasoning, literature, drama, and art to inform physicians about ethical issues and prepare them to empathize and communicate compassionately.
Speaker: Abraham M. Nussbaum
Date: Nov 16, 2017
Spending time in the hospital or watching those we love suffer is never a fun experience. Especially not around the holidays. In this letter written by Dr. Gretchen Case, she shares her own personal experience with hospitals and the holidays and pleads with others to make smart and safe choices so they don't have to experience similar heartbreak. ... Read More
Internal MedicineOne Utah family lost their father to COVID-19 earlier this year. Now they are seeking compensation from the company where they believed he contracted it while at work. Dr. Teneille Brown, JD, Adjunct Professor in the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities discussed how the immunity laws signed by the Governor earlier this year shields large companies from responsibility if their employees contract COVID-19 on their premises.... Read More
Internal MedicineThe Department of Internal Medicine Congratulates Dr. Susan Sample, PhD, MFA on having her poem published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). ... Read More
Internal Medicine
Beyond Versus: The Struggle the Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture
(Life & Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology & Psychology)
More Publications
