Parents vs clinicians: a path to resolution

Parent-clinician conflict is a common reason that clinical ethicists become involved in children’s care. The genesis of the conflict is often quite early in the course of the child’s illness and the situation builds to a crisis when there is a difficult decision to be made. Clinicians and ethicists have a traditional way of considering the problem confronting the child. In this podcast Bry Moore and Ros McDougall offer a different lens through which to see the problem and, ideally, find a fresh way to consider the conflict and manage a path to resolution. Guests: Associate Professor Bryanna Moore, Dept of Bioethics & Health Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA, and Associate Professor Rosalind McDougall, Health Ethics at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. Host: Professor John Massie, Children's Bioethics Centre, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne.