Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Bioethics concepts and clinical ethics consultation • AI in medicine: bias, diagnosis, mental health apps, predicting preferences • Autonomy, capacity, surrogate decisions, DNR, futility • Resource allocation, trials ethics • Historic cases, research abuses, reproductive ethics
This podcast introduces bioethics by using real-world cases, emerging technologies, and on-the-ground clinical dilemmas to show how moral, legal, and practical questions arise in health care. Across the episodes, the hosts explore how decisions get made when values conflict—especially around patient autonomy, consent, and the limits of treatment. Many conversations focus on difficult moments in hospitals: determining decision-making capacity during acute psychiatric crises, responding to treatment refusals, clarifying what DNR orders mean in practice, and navigating surrogate decision-making when family wishes, clinician recommendations, and patient preferences do not align.
A major theme is how institutions manage ethically charged problems at a systems level. The podcast examines policies and interventions designed to handle medical futility and non-beneficial treatment requests, allocate scarce resources, improve ethics education, and build structures such as complex case committees that coordinate responses to challenging patients and family dynamics. Historical episodes revisit landmark controversies in research and public health—such as experimentation on vulnerable populations, eugenics and forced sterilization, and high-profile disputes over end-of-life care—highlighting how past practices shape current norms.
Another prominent strand is the ethical impact of artificial intelligence in medicine, including algorithmic diagnosis and screening tools, bias and fairness, mental health apps, and AI’s potential role in clinical ethics and advance care planning. The overall focus is on how ethical “fault lines” appear in both individual bedside decisions and broader health systems, and how communities and professionals respond under pressure.
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Episodes:
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INKED BY FAITH: Introduction
2026-Jan-29
16 minutes
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Catching Up and Preview of New Project
2025-Dec-21
6 minutes
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Can AI predict your medical wishes better than family?
2025-May-09
49 minutes
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What Patients Want to Know From AI
2025-May-01
41 minutes
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Combating Bias in AI with Dr. Benjamin Collins
2025-Apr-17
36 minutes
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AI-Assisted Diagnosis of Developmental Delay in Children with Teresa Fair-Field
2025-Apr-10
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AI for Clinical Ethics
2025-Apr-03
40 minutes
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Student formation in the Age of AI
2025-Mar-20
39 minutes
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AI and Mental Health Care
2025-Mar-13
39 minutes
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Rabbi Jason Weiner and the impact of AI on humanistic medical practice
2025-Mar-06
43 minutes
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AI in Medicine Part 2
2025-Feb-20
41 minutes
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AI in Medicine Part I
2025-Feb-06
49 minutes
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Treatment and Diagnosis over Patient Objection with Dr. Holland Kaplan
2025-Jan-23
43 minutes
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Are Clinical Trials Best for Every Patient? Rethinking Cancer Care and Research Ethics with Dr. David Shalowitz
2025-Jan-12
41 minutes
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Redefining Non-Beneficial and Futile Treatment: Insights from Dr. Peter DePergola
2024-Dec-14
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Success Story of Complex Cases Committees
2024-Nov-15
32 minutes
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Getting Clear on DNR Order with Stephanie Van Slyke
2024-Nov-07
41 minutes
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STAT Ethics Education with Steven Squires
2024-Oct-24
46 minutes
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Allocating Scarce Resources with Dr. Jennifer Bell
2024-Oct-17
46 minutes
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The Dr. Gibb Episode
2024-Oct-10
36 minutes
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The Dr. Stahl Episode
2024-Sep-26
50 minutes
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Curbing Violence in Health Care: Featuring Dr. Tim Lahey
2024-Sep-19
45 minutes
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Pain Medication in Maternity Care with Dr. Becket Gremmels
2024-Sep-12
33 minutes
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Working with Prison Wardens featuring Stefano Mugnaini
2024-Sep-05
37 minutes
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SEASON 6
2024-Aug-29
5 minutes
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Willowbrook State School
2024-Jan-20
52 minutes
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Dax Cowart and the Refusal of Medical Treatment
2024-Jan-04
44 minutes
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Mary and Jodie
2023-Dec-14
53 minutes
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The Ashley Treatment
2023-Dec-07
56 minutes
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Eugenics and Forced Sterilization: The Infamous Case of Buck v. Bell (1927)
2023-Nov-30
42 minutes
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Henrietta Lacks
2023-Nov-16
40 minutes
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The Case of Baby M
2023-Nov-02
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Halloween Special: Placentophagy!
2023-Oct-26
47 minutes
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Terri Schiavo
2023-Oct-19
60 minutes
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Season 5 Trailer (s5e0)
2023-Oct-12
12 minutes
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Mifepristone and the Judicial Review of Drugs
2023-May-04
35 minutes
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Psych Boarding in the Emergency Department
2023-Apr-27
26 minutes
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Palliative Sedation
2023-Apr-20
25 minutes
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Breaking up the Organ Monopoly
2023-Apr-13
21 minutes
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Who Owns an Embryo?
2023-Mar-31
18 minutes
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Residency Match Day!
2023-Mar-23
18 minutes
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Can We Turn Off a Pacemaker?
2023-Mar-16
21 minutes
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Vasectomies for Young Men
2023-Mar-09
20 minutes
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Prisoner Organ Donation
2023-Mar-02
22 minutes
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ChatGPT
2023-Feb-23
17 minutes
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Wrap-Up for Season 4
2023-Feb-02
16 minutes
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Is the Surrogate Trustworthy?
2023-Jan-26
59 minutes
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Advance Directives, Surrogate Decision-Maker Disagreement, and Religious Commitments
2023-Jan-19
56 minutes
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A Pregnant Patient, Cancer, and Uncertainty
2023-Jan-12
46 minutes
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Life Prolonging Treatment after a Suicide Attempt
2023-Jan-05
48 minutes
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When Healthcare Providers and Patient Families Disagree
2022-Dec-15
54 minutes
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The Catch-22 of the LVAD and Domestic Abuse
2022-Dec-08
39 minutes
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Death by Starvation: The Ethics of VSED
2022-Dec-01
57 minutes
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When Your Young Patient Asks to Die
2022-Nov-17
48 minutes
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Overriding Parents for the Sake of the Child
2022-Nov-10
52 minutes
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Justifiable Deception
2022-Nov-03
48 minutes
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Halloween Special!
2022-Oct-27
48 minutes
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UnConference Episode 3: The Participants
2022-Aug-18
29 minutes
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UnConference Episode 2: The Presenters
2022-Aug-18
41 minutes
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UnConference Episode 1: The Planners
2022-Aug-18
49 minutes
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Season 3 Trailer— ”Propelling Clinical Ethics Forward: A Working UnConference”
2022-Aug-09
2 minutes
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Special Crossover Episode with Bioethics in the Margins Podcast
2021-Dec-27
34 minutes
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Animals, Food, and Bioethics
2021-Dec-09
30 minutes
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Death, Dying, and Hospice in the USA
2021-Dec-02
38 minutes
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#FreeBritney, Guardians & Conservators
2021-Nov-18
27 minutes
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Religious Exemptions & the COVID19 Vaccine Mandate
2021-Nov-11
35 minutes
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COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, Employee Rights, and Exemptions
2021-Nov-04
36 minutes
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Halloween Special Episode 2.0
2021-Oct-28
37 minutes
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Solving the Opioid Epidemic
2021-Oct-21
35 minutes
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Kidney to Share
2021-Oct-14
41 minutes
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Season 2 Trailer
2021-Oct-12
2 minutes
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Hot Take #4: No Cuts, No Butts, No Coconuts!
2021-Feb-15
24 minutes
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Medicine, Professionalism & #MedBikini
2021-Jan-14
42 minutes
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Hot Take #4: The Vaccine Rollout
2021-Jan-12
20 minutes
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Why is there a philosopher in the hospital?
2021-Jan-07
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A Digital Afterlife—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
2020-Dec-17
42 minutes
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Hot Take #3: We Have a Vaccine! Now What?
2020-Dec-14
24 minutes
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Religion and Bioethics
2020-Dec-10
30 minutes
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Hot Take #2: Prenatal Screening, Parenting, and Disability
2020-Dec-05
19 minutes
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Disability Bioethics
2020-Dec-03
23 minutes
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Hot Take: Covid-19 Vaccine Challenge Trials
2020-Nov-21
16 minutes
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Bioethics, Social Science & Homelessness
2020-Nov-19
30 minutes
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#BlackBioethics
2020-Nov-12
32 minutes
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Busting Myths in Clinical Ethics
2020-Nov-05
29 minutes
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Halloween Special! Featuring Darian Goldin Stahl
2020-Oct-29
32 minutes
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Who wouldn’t get a Covid vaccine?
2020-Oct-22
27 minutes
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Who Belongs in the ASBH?
2020-Oct-15
27 minutes
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Bioethics in a Pandemic
2020-Oct-08
30 minutes
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Season 1 Trailer
2020-Sep-25
2 minutes
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