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NEJM InterviewsNEJM Interview: Mark Wicclair on approaches to protecting both physicians’ conscience and patients’ health.Mark Wicclair is an adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law and a professor of philosophy emeritus at West Virginia University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. D.B. White and M. Wicclair. Navigating Clinicians’ Conscience-Based Refusals to Provide Lawful Medical Care. N Engl J Med 2024;391:1465-1467.2024-10-2308 min
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastConscientious Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara BuchbinderToday’s podcast may be a stretch for our listeners. Please stick with us. No matter what your position on medical aid in dying (I’m ambivalent) or abortion (I’m pro-choice), this is a bioethics podcast, and I hope that we can all agree that the ethical issues at stake deserve a critical re-think. All three of today’s guests are well established bioethicists. Let me start by quote/paraphrasing one of today’s guests, Mara Buchbinder, who puts her finger on the issue we talk about today: “Typically when we think about conscience in medical ethics w...2023-01-0548 min