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Daniela Lamas, MD, is a New York Times contributing opinion writer and a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She serves on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and is a leading voice for humanism in medicine. Her book, You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death and In Between, examines the thin border between life and death through real stories of patients whose lives were saved by modern medical technology.
Dr. Lamas’s keynote address will explore the increasing tension in decision making at key junctures of illness and the role of clinical ethics to help mediate. She will discuss the sometimes complicated question of “who decides,” which is intertwined in the shifting role of clinicians in the 21st century.
Dr. Lamas’s talk will be followed by a dialogue on these issues with the Center’s Rosemary Flanigan Chair in Bioethics, Tarris (Terry) Rosell, PhD, DMin, HEC-C.
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