Pediatric Ethics provides insights from leaders in pediatric ethics regarding hot topics and current controversies. Presented by the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center.
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COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and Public Health
John Lantos and Phoebe Danziger
Dr. Phoebe Danziger discusses the possible pushback from a COVID-19 vaccine, and how to overcome doubts of the safety and efficacy of a new vaccine.
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Should We Send Kids to School This Fall
John Lantos and Nathaniel Beers
Dr. Nathaniel Beers discusses the ethical, epidemiological, economic, and emotional issues surrounding the conversation on whether or not children should return to school or resume online learning.
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COVID: Where Do We Go From Here
John Lantos and Shari Barkin
Dr. Shari Barkin shares what the next phase of COVID-19 will look like, what society has learned, and where society all goes from here.
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Is the Best Interest Standard the Best Standard for Pediatric Bioethics
John Lantos and Erica Salter
Dr. Erica Salter joins Dr. Lantos to discuss the arguments for and against the best interest standard.
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A Pediatric Infectious Disease Doctor Reflects on COVID in Texas
John Lantos and Susan Wootton
Susan Wootton, MD discusses COVID-19 and the issues that parents and children are facing as we move towards the fall and the new school year.
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COVID in the UK: Where Do We Go From Here
John Lantos and Dominic Wikinson
The UK was hit hard by COVID-19. One of the UK's leading bioethicists, Dr. Dominic Wilkinson from Oxford University, will talk about some of the decision makings that was crucial to getting through the crisis.
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COVID: What Have We Learned
John Lantos and Louis Bell
Dr. Louis Bell shares what the pediatricians at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have learned from the pandemic and how they can move forward.
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COVID in New York City
John Lantos and George Hardart
Dr. George Hardart shares what it is like in New York City, the epicenter of COVID-19 in the United States.
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Breathe, Baby, Breath: The Story of a Preemie
John Lantos and Annie Janvier
Dr. Annie Janiver shares her personal story of having her daughter Violette born at 23 weeks of gestation and spend some time in the NICU. Dr. Janvier discusses her book about what it was like to be a patient in the unit where she had long been an attending physician.
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COVID and Child Abuse
John Lantos and Stephanie Deutsch
Dr. Stephanie Deutsch explains what to do when parents are suspected of abuse and their child needs some urgent decisions made during the pandemic.
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Pandemic Ethics
John Lantos and Erin Dashka-Talati Paquette
Dr. Erin Dashka-Talati Paquette shares how pandemics raise unique ethical issues.
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Ethics and Communication During a Pandemic
John Lantos and Amy Caruso Brown
Dr. Amy Caruso Brown discusses ethical decisions and communication strategies during a pandemic.
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Planning for COVID in Washington State
John Lantos and Douglas S. Diekema
Dr. Doug Diekema has been working with a state planning task force and will talk about how they are thinking about the state's needs in dealing with COVID-19.
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Abortion: Ethics, Access, and Viability
John Lantos and Katie Watson
Katie Watson, JD discusses the 2018 Professor Watson published Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion with Oxford University Press.
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Medical Futility in Texas - Again
John Lantos and Laura Miller-Smith
Dr. Laura Miller-Smith discusses the case of Tinslee Lewis, a baby in Texas who is at the center of a controversy about medical futility.
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Balancing a Child's Interest With the Interests of Other Family Members
John Lantos and David Groll
Professor Groll proposes four models for thinking about how to balance the interests of parents, families, and a sick child.
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Ethical Dilemmas in Fetal Medicine
John Lantos and Steve Leuthner
Dr. Steve Leuthner discusses the ethical questions surrounding advances in prenatal diagnosis and in-utero treatment of fetuses.
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Is Pregnancy a Disease? And Why Does That Matter
John Lantos and Daniel Brudney
Dr. Daniel Brudney explains some doctors refuse to provide certain medical treatments to their patients because they have a conscientious objection to those treatments. However, should all objections to treatment be honored? Where are the limits between professional obligations and personal beliefs?
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Premature Birth - What Does it Teach Us About Being Human
John Lantos and Sarah DiGregorio
Sarah DiGregorio shares her personal story of going into premature labor, what she went through with a baby in the NICU, and what lead her into researching how NICU's came about.
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Right to an Open Future
John Lantos and Jeremy R. Garrett
Dr. Jeremy Garrett shares why some parents would want to get their children's genetics screened and sequenced. However, is it beneficial for the children?
