Community Voices in Medical Ethics

Community Voices in Medical Ethics We are a Boston-based group of 18 who provide feedback on medical ethics policies to the Harvard teaching hospitals. We also welcome your support!

Community Voices in Medical Ethics (CVME) exists to ensure that an informed community’s voice is included in the institutional and public dialogue about medical ethics. To facilitate the conversation within the medical institutional setting, CVME oversees a Community Ethics Committee (CEC), a group of community volunteers who articulate the community’s diverse perspective on ethical conflicts by c

ommenting on institutional policy development and clinical consultation. Additionally, CVME uses innovative models of public engagement to facilitate the medical ethics conversation among medical professionals, government entities, local communities, and the broader public. CVME provides (a) unbiased public forums and commentary regarding current medical practices, policies, and bioethical issues and (b) informational materials, research, and reports about community perspectives on medical ethics, decision-making, and healthcare. Providers at the Harvard teaching hospitals call on the CEC to discuss and provide guidance on ethical issues that arise in patient care. Among the issues that the CEC has deliberated and reported on are: palliative sedation, pediatric organ donation, withholding non-therapeutic cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and guidelines on social media in relations with patients and their families. The advice offered by the Committee on each of these issues is provided in greater detail on this page. Follow our blog or twitter feed to learn more about CVME's activities. Participate in an upcoming event, or take a survey (as they come up). Here you can learn about some of the most relevant medical ethics issues today and how they can affect you.

09/26/2017

What can high school students teach about editing and noncompliance? Have a look.

Student Projects: As part of their recent participation in the Bioethics Program at The Rivers School under the mentorship of CEC members ...

Common theme from Tuskegee to Guatemala to the Caribbean: One human life devalued for the sake of another.
08/22/2017

Common theme from Tuskegee to Guatemala to the Caribbean: One human life devalued for the sake of another.

Londa Schiebinger, a science history professor at Stanford University, sheds light on how slave owners tested dangerous medical experiments on people in her new book Secret Cures Of Slaves.

For hearth-wrenching, it doesn't get more painful than this.
07/12/2017

For hearth-wrenching, it doesn't get more painful than this.

At two days old, Sam could not breathe on his own. What else could have been done?

One of the "most significant medicolegal cases in United States history.” RIP Jerry Canterbury.
05/17/2017

One of the "most significant medicolegal cases in United States history.” RIP Jerry Canterbury.

A surgery left Mr. Canterbury partly paralyzed at 19 led to a ruling that transformed how doctors deal with patients in evaluating the risks of treatment.

05/08/2017

Essential reading for medical care at the end of life.

A substantial body of evidence shows that broad improvements to end-of-life care are within reach. In Dying in America, a consensus report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a committee of experts finds that improving the quality and availability of medical and social services for patients and th...

What did Henrietta Lacks and Eva Peron have in common?
04/28/2017

What did Henrietta Lacks and Eva Peron have in common?

In 1951, cervical cancer was an illness clouded in secrecy and shame. It's now a cancer-treatment success story, a new era Henrietta Lacks helped usher in.

What is the prognosis for with a newly full & reconstituted ?
04/15/2017

What is the prognosis for with a newly full & reconstituted ?

Cases involving biosimilars, gene patents in the hopper

Peru's history of involuntary sterilization -- BBC
03/28/2017

Peru's history of involuntary sterilization -- BBC

Victoria Vigo woke from an emergency caesarean to find she had been sterilised - without her consent. Now she is demanding justice.

"Massachusetts' broken mental health care system." From
03/26/2017

"Massachusetts' broken mental health care system." From

People with mental illness under the supervision of the Department of Mental Health have endangered themselves or others recently, including one who died.

"We are in danger of returning to a pre-antibiotic world in which a cut could prove deadly and surgery would not be wort...
03/25/2017

"We are in danger of returning to a pre-antibiotic world in which a cut could prove deadly and surgery would not be worth the risk of infection."

We need to be budgeting to defend against the next pandemic.

There are hundreds of stem cell clinics in US. How many have "ethics" review this shady?
03/23/2017

There are hundreds of stem cell clinics in US. How many have "ethics" review this shady?

A clinical study that vanished into thin air. Ethics reviewers with checkered disciplinary records. Three ruined lives.

The Guardian in the ER at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital: "The national healthcare battle seems to be waged largely with ...
03/23/2017

The Guardian in the ER at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital: "The national healthcare battle seems to be waged largely with swords of political ideology and money rather than bodies and souls, and the man lying with bullets lodged inside his frame can seem an afterthought."

Henry Ford hospital is one of the busiest in Michigan, and with many patients on Medicare and Medicaid it stands to be impacted greatly by an Obamacare repeal. As the debate rages, one doctor remains the calm at the center of the storm

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