Megan Kreft, a physician assistant from Portland, OR, talks to Joe Zalot about her experiences working for, and being terminated by, Providence Medical Group.
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NCBC President Joseph Meaney and Staff Ethicist John Di Camillo join Joe Zalot to discuss ethical challenges concerning COVID-19 vaccines.
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Fr. Tad Pacholczyk and Dr. John Grabenstein join Joe Zalot to discuss the use, or non-use, of aborted fetal cells in the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
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Tracy Winsor joins Joe Zalot to discuss Catholic-based resources for parents who receive a life-limiting diagnosis for their unborn child.
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Shannon Syzek, Catholic Benefits Association (CBA) Director of Human Resources Consultative Services, and Jason Coon, CBA Vice President of the Catholic Insurance Company, join Joe Zalot to discuss important services that CBA offers to Catholic employers.
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Doug Wilson, CEO of the Catholic Benefits Association, joins Joe Zalot to discuss the work of the CBA and the impact of recent Supreme Court decisions on religious liberty.
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NCBC President Joseph Meaney joins Joe Zalot to discuss his experience of being denied the sacraments during a recent hospital stay.
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Attorney Eric Kniffin joins Joe Zalot to discuss the US Supreme Court’s recent Bostock v. Clayton County decision, particularly its religious liberty implications.
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In the second of a two-part series on brain death, Dr. Melissa Moschella joins Joe Zalot to discuss how “irreversible loss of organismal self-integration” offers a valid philosophical basis for determining death.
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This podcast is the first of a two-part series on brain death. Matthew Hanley joins Joe Zalot to talk about his book Determining Death by Neurological Criteria: Current Practice and Ethics recently published by the NCBC.
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Archbishop Joseph Naumann (Kansas City, Kansas), chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Greg Schleppenbach, associate director of the USCCB’s Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, join Joe Zalot to discuss the work of the Pro-Life Committee and the US bishops’ call for the development of an ethical COVID-19 vaccine.
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NCBC ethicist John A. DiCamillo joins the podcast to answer concerns about COVID-19 and ethical challenges to vaccine development.
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NCBC President Joseph Meaney and John Brehany, director of institutional relations, answer concerns voiced by Catholic health care professionals. They also describe essential elements of ethical triage protocols—especially when it comes to triage teams and exclusionary criteria—and they discuss whether health care providers can withdraw treatment or place a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order without patient consent.
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Elliott Bedford, the director of ethics integration at Ascension Health in Indiana, discusses the role of ethicists and the challenges they face in Catholic health care.
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Jeffrey Burger, MD, and Steven Bozza discuss the moral permissibility of safe infection sites. They evaluate the effectiveness of such sites as part of the treatment continuum for opioid addiction and consider the concept of a safe injection site in light of ethical principles and Catholic social teaching.
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Joseph Meaney, the new president of The National Catholic Bioethics Center, describes his perspective on the future challenges facing Catholic bioethics in the United States, as well as how his previous work with Human Life International will inform his approach at the NCBC.
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Becket Gremmels, system director of ethics at Christus Health, in Irving, TX, discusses the contribution of ethics services to mission of Catholic health care.
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John Brehany, the director of institutional relations at The National Catholic Bioethics Center, continues his discussion on the revisions to part 6 of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs), in particular, the emphasis on the term “witness” and what this means for Catholic health care.
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John Brehany, the director of institutional relations at The National Catholic Bioethics Center, discusses the revisions to part 6 of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs), which pertains to collaborative relationships between Catholic and non-Catholic institutions.
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John Brehany, the director of institutional relations at The National Catholic Bioethics Center, provides an overview of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs), including their purpose and history and a summary of the document’s six sections.
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