Bioethics in a Pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has touched nearly every aspect of our lives, often in challenging ways. One of the strangest changes is that bioethical questions are on the front of newspapers, discussed at dinner tables, and seem more critically important than ever.

This episode, Tyler and Devan discuss how questions about bioethics and what it means to be a bioethicists has changed during the pandemic. They talk with Dr. Matthew Wynia about his work in bioethics and his predictions of what will change in bioethics as a result of Covid-19.

Check-out Dr. Wynia’s amazing podcast Hard Call

Read more from Dr. Wynia:

• “Ensuring Adequate Palliative and Hospice Care During Covid-19 Surges”

• “Ethical Triage Demands a Better Survivability Score”

• “Forced Choices: Ethical Challenges in Cardiology During the Covid-19 Pandemic”

• “Ventilator Triage Policies During the Covid-19 Pandemic at U.S. Hospitals Associated with the Association of Bioethics Program Directors”

• “Scarcity in the Covid-19 Pandemic”