In Collaboration with Providence Center for Health Care Ethics, Lewis & Clark Law School is proud to present an evening with Dr. Sandra Johnson, J.D., LL.M.:
Should the Law Define Medical Futility?"
Tuesday, October 16, 7-8 p.m.
Lewis & Clark Law School, Legal Research Center (L1)
Lower Student Lounge
10015 SW Terwilliger Blvd., Portland Oregon
1 OSB MCLE credit
Free and Open to the Public
When does treatment at the end of life, or in conditions with devastating loss of functions, become "futile?" when does the determination of futility of treatment justify terminating life-sustaining treatment over the persistent objection of the patient or family?
These conflicts arise with some frequency and can persist despite the best efforts to resolve them. Ethicists, physicians and hospitals, and now state legislatures, have all attempted to define the concept of "medical futility" and that point at which power shifts entirely to the health care professionals for decision making. Selecting a definition of medical futility is more than semantics. It is, instead, a question of ethics and public policy. This lecture will discuss recent legal developments in the question of medical futility as a way of examining the fundamental value questions that arise in developing an operational definition of medical futility.
Professor Johnson's visit is made possible by the co-sponsorship of Lewis & Clark Law School and the The Curtis R. Holzgang, M.D., Visiting Scholar Series. The Visiting Scholar program was launched in 2001 and was named in 2005 for Dr. Curtis R. Holzgang, director of Critical Care Medicine, Providence St. Vincent Medical Center.
Providence Center for Health Care Ethics was established to contribute to excellence in patient care by providing the highest-quality ethics education, consultation, research and scholarship.
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2007 Fall Business Law Lecturer: Dr. Sandra Johnson, J.D., LL.M.
Sandra L. Johnson, J.D., LL.M. Sandra Johnson, J.D., L.L.M. holds the Tenet Endowed Chair in Health Care Law and Ethics, Center for Health Care Ethics & School of Law, Saint Louis University. She also teaches in teh Schools of Medicine and Public Health. In 1982, she became the founding director of the Center for Health Law Studies, now recognized as one of the top health law centers in the country.
Professor Johnson's scholarship has helped form the field of health law. She is co-author of Health Law - Cases, Materials and Problems. This text is used by more than 150 universities and has been cited more than 500 times in scholarly articles and court opinions. Her research interests include long-term health care and bioethics. In collaboration with other scholars, she helped draft the Model pain Relief Act, which as been adoped by several state legislatures.
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