Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Bioethics concepts • clinical ethics consultation • AI in healthcare ethics, bias, decision support • autonomy, capacity, surrogate decisions, DNRs • end-of-life, futility, palliative sedation • scarce-resource allocation • research ethics scandals • reproductive ethics, surrogacy • disability rights, prison health
This podcast introduces bioethics through conversations and case-based storytelling that connect medical practice, health policy, and everyday moral questions in care. Across the episodes, the hosts focus on how decisions get made when stakes are high and values collide—especially around patient autonomy, informed consent, capacity, and surrogate decision-making. Recurring topics include whether and when clinicians should treat over a patient’s objection, how “do not resuscitate” orders are interpreted in practice, and how hospitals respond to requests for treatment viewed as non-beneficial or futile.
A major thread examines how new technologies reshape ethical responsibilities. Several discussions center on artificial intelligence in medicine: its current clinical uses, how bias can be embedded or mitigated, what patients want to know about AI-supported tools, and whether algorithms can help predict patient preferences or support ethics consultation. Related episodes consider AI in mental health apps, AI-assisted pediatric screening and diagnosis, and how medical education may need to change as clinicians increasingly rely on automated systems.
The show also returns to landmark and controversial moments in medical history and research ethics—highlighting experimentation on vulnerable populations, exploitation, and the long-term effects of institutional and legal decisions. Questions about reproduction and parenthood appear through debates over surrogacy, embryos, and reproductive technologies. Other episodes address resource allocation, clinical trials and therapeutic misconception, violence in health care settings, incarceration and health care advocacy, palliative sedation, organ transplantation policy, and ethically complex responses to psychiatric crises and suicide attempts.
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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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