How Do Love and Justice Intersect in a World of Scarce Medical Resources?

Date: July 07, 2010, Lecture: 6:00-8:00PM, Discussion: 8:00-9:00PM
Location: Techny Towers Conference Center, 2001 Waukegan Road, Techny IL. 60082
Sponsored by: The Center for Ethics and Advocacy in Healthcare

Description:
This program is designed to teach people about ethical decision making in healthcare and how to use this process in their own lives. The goal of engagement in this process is a right decision, and an improved quality of life. The process is known as discernment. Understanding the ethical aspects of choice in critical life and death moments in health related transitioning offers us a unique and privileged opportunity to tap into resources within each of us. The main goal of this program is to teach people to become both their own healthcare advocates and advocates for others in their community as well.

Who is Eligible?
Neighbors who want to be or have been of assistance to each other in a healthcare crisis in their neighborhood or other grouping. How can I help? How did I help? How can we or should we organize ourselves in such a way that we could be of even greater assistance? All that is needed is a desire to be of help to those who are suffering.

Objectives:

• To acknowledge that each one of us is a person of extraordinary dignity. No matter what one’s condition physically or mentally, human dignity remains the extraordinary equalizer.
• To learn that doing justice is to make every effort to balance relationships. Such an effort is also the ethical imperative.
• To learn the meaning of material, moral, and personal interdependence.
• To turn difficult healthcare decisions, having potential for human growth, into lived experiences of human growth.

See Program Brochure