#637 Lars Sandman: Ethics in Healthcare, Priority Settings, and End-of-Life Decisions
RECORDED ON MARCH 14th 2022.
Dr. Lars Sandman is Professor of Healthcare Ethics at Linköping University, and Director at National Centre for Priorities in Health, in Sweden. His research area is organizational ethics in healthcare, focusing on priority setting and ethical analysis of healthcare methods. He is the author of A Good Death: On the Value of Death and Dying.
In this episode, we talk about ethics in healthcare. We talk about organizational ethics in healthcare, and the questions it deals with. We discuss Person Centered Care and Personalized Medicine. We talk about healthcare priority settings, and the example of plastic surgery. We discuss patient involvement in health policy development and in medical decisions. We talk about how people think about withholding and withdrawing treatment for cost‐effectiveness reasons. Finally, we discuss end-of-life decisions, and ask if there is such a thing as a good life, and if people should be allowed to choose how and when they die.
Time Links:
Intro
Organizational ethics in healthcare
Person Centered Care
Personalized/Precision Medicine
What are healthcare priority settings?
Should plastic surgery be publicly funded?
Patient involvement in health policy
Patient involvement in medical decisions
Withholding and withdrawing treatment for cost‐effectiveness reasons
Death and end-of-life decisions. Is there such a thing as a good death?
Should people be able to choose when and how they die?
Follow Dr. Sandman’s work!
Follow Dr. Sandman’s work:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/3nimNJ7
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/3wOkUr3
A Good Death: https://amzn.to/3Cj67Ws