Department of Medicine

University Health Network/Mount Sinai Hospital

 

                                                           

 

 Wednesday, August 17, 2011

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Toronto General Hospital 

Eaton Wing, Ground Floor, Room 025/026

 

Videoconferenced to:

 

Toronto Western Hospital – Main Auditorium, 2 West Wing, Room #401

Mount Sinai Hospital – Auditorium, 18^th Floor

 

“Do Everything!?”

Ethics, Law and Life-Sustaining Treatments in Ontario

SPEAKERS:       Dr. Laura Hawryluck

Staff Intensivist and Acute Resuscitation Committee Chair, UHN

&

Ms. Linda Wright

Director of Bioethics and Palliative Care, UHN

       LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 

1.     Understanding of ethical issues related to withholding and withdrawing life sustaining treatments

2.     Improved knowledge and understanding of recent court decisions related to the withholding and withdrawing of life sustaining treatments

3.     Awareness of how these decisions impact organizational policies related to life-sustaining treatments