One of the most important services that Montefiore Medical Center offers our patients and their family members is help in making difficult healthcare decisions through our Clinical Ethics Consultation Service. A consultation is free and completely confidential.
“Bioethics” involves the analysis of moral and ethical issues that arise in the healthcare setting. A bioethics consultation offers the advice of experts in sorting out critical dilemmas such as these:
The key to making wise decisions at crucial times is deciding what is best for the patient. Simple as that sounds, what is best to do is not always clear. A bioethics consultation is designed to help patients, family members, healthcare proxy agents and caregivers clarify issues and reach those decisions.
Specifically, the patient and/or family members receive support through:
Members of Montefiore’s Bioethics Consultation Service include ethicists, physicians, nurses, social workers, patient representatives, clergy, risk managers and hospital legal counsel. Not all members are involved in each consultation. Those that can best advise on a particular issue take part.
A patient, family member, caregiver or health proxy agent may request a meeting with the Bioethics Consultation Service. All discussions, information and records are protected for privacy. Contact us at 718-920-4630.
Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics
Clinical Ethics Consultation is a service of the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics. For more information about the activities of the Center, click here.
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