A Conversation About End-of-Life Decisionmaking

Ouellette, Alicia R.; Quill, Timothy; Swidler, Robert; Pope , Thaddeus Mason; Dubler, Nancy

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A Conversation About End-of-Life Decisionmaking

NYSBA Health Law Journal Vol. 14, No. 2, 2009

Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-05

20 Pages Posted: 12 Jan 2010

See all articles by Alicia R. Ouellette

Thaddeus Mason Pope

Mitchell Hamline School of Law; Queensland University of Technology - Australian Health Law Research Center; Alden March Bioethics Institute; Saint Georges University

Nancy Dubler

Yeshiva University - Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine

Date Written: January 8, 2010

Abstract

In July 2009, five scholars and practitioners engaged in a two-hour conversation about current end-of-life health issues in New York state. Thaddeus Pope (Widener Law), Alicia Ouellette (Albany Law), Timothy Quill (Rochester Medicine), Robert Swidler (Northeast Health), and Nancy Dubler (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) discussed the Family Healthcare Decisions Act, medical futility, palliative care, and bioethics mediation. This article, part of a symposium issue of health law "conversations," is a substantially-edited transcript of the July 2009 conversation.

Keywords: end of life care, bioethics, mediation, medical futility, healthcare, decision making

JEL Classification: K32

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Ouellette, Alicia R. and Quill, Timothy and Swidler, Robert and Pope, Thaddeus Mason and Dubler, Nancy, A Conversation About End-of-Life Decisionmaking (January 8, 2010). NYSBA Health Law Journal Vol. 14, No. 2, 2009, Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-05, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1533517