Treatment Over Objection: Can It Be Justified?

Institutional Ethics Program

Clinical Ethics Case Conference

Treatment Over Objection:

Can It Be Justified?

Monday, March 6, 2023

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Michael Miller MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences
UTMB

Tina Nguyen, PhD
Clinical Ethics Fellow
Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities
School of Public and
Population Health
UTMB

This will be a hybrid event open only to UTMB employees.
Please do not forward.

Health Education Center
Room 3.200

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Register HERE in advance for the Zoom lecture

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email.

Learning Objectives:

Identify ethical dimensions of two cases of patient refusal of recommended treatment. Discuss considerations for patient refusal of care and compelling treatment. Identify ways multidisciplinary teams work together to care for a patient refusing treatment.