MORE DOCTORS ON THE EDGE New Cases & Dilemmas

COURSE LEADERS: Dr. Fred Abrams

MEETS: 6 Thursdays TIME: 10:00am - 12:00pm

DATES COURSE MEETS: 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20

PRICE: $65.00

LOCATION: 8081 E. Orchard Rd., Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Map

TYPE: Lecture,Discussion,Reading

CATEGORY: SCIENCE & SOCIAL SCIENCE

NOTE:

$65 (includes the NEW required large notebook with all new cases—no book is needed)
$50 (no notebook—for those who are sharing with someone else)

DESCRIPTION:

While examining all-new case studies, discover the wrenching decisions that doctors face in dealing with such real-life issues as the hazards and happiness of surrogate parenting, euthanasia, sterilization, assisted suicide, abortion, in-vitro fertilization, religious issues in reproduction and birth defects. In a profession where bodies are vulnerable and souls are laid bare, the dictates of medicine, law, and morality are often conflicting and ambiguous. Doctors sometimes lie, betray confidences and break the law. Would you do the same?

COURSE LEADER:
Dr. Fred Abrams

Dr. Fred Abrams is currently medical consultant to the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care and serves on the Board of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the Health Sciences Center, In 2003 he was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Center for Bioethics and Humanities of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. In 2006 he received the Isaac Bell and John Hayes Award for Leadership in Medical Ethics and Professionalism from the American Medical Association. In 2010 the Board of Governors of the HealthOne System awarded him the Trusted Care Award for Excellence in Clinical Ethics.

In 1983 he founded and directed the first community hospital-based center for study and teaching of bioethics, the Center for Applied Biomedical Ethics at Rose Medical Center in Denver, which then provided the training in the 1980s for all the original Colorado hospital ethics committees as well as the Community Ethics Committee sponsored by the Colorado Department of Health. In the mid-1980s, he was a leader in the passage of Colorado’s first “Living Will” law.

Fred was Executive Director of the Denver University/ Colorado University Health Ethics and Policy Consortium, Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Public Affairs at UCD and Adjunct Professor of Ethics at the Iliff School of Theology. He directed the Robert Wood Johnson-supported “Colorado Speaks out on Health” project reporting the opinion of thousands of Coloradoans on ethical issues in healthcare and later, the opinions of Colorado doctors on euthanasia. He developed and teaches courses in the “Essentials of Biomedical Ethics,” assisting hospitals, long-term care facilities and communities to create ethics committees for continuing education of staff and public. In the past 30+ years, he has conducted more than 2000 workshops, lectures, classes and conferences for medical, nursing, legal, clergy, and teaching professionals and for the public on ethical issues.