Edmund Pellegrino (2002): “The Needs of the Patient vs. the Needs of Others”

As we prepare for our 30th annual conference, this episode of The Bioethics Podcast features a plenary addresses from our 2002 conference, "Bioethics at the Bedside." The speaker is the late Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, and in this address he looks at issues of justice with respect to the physician-patient relationship.  Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD was Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the founding director of the Center for Clinical Bioethics, which was renamed the Edmund D. Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics in his honor in 2013, at Georgetown University Medical Center.  Our 30th annual conference, The Christian Stake in Bioethics Revisited, is coming up June 22-24, and will be available to attend in-person, online, or on-demand. Register now at cbhd.org.