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2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Ethics of children with rare diseases and the resulting disability participating in commercially sponsored advanced therapy clinical trials
July 26, 2026 · 35 minIn this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, research nurse coordinator Cat Wood from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute explores the ethical challenges of advanced therapy…
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2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: “The Squeaky Wheel,” an ethical approach to finding the balance between addressing parental concerns and managing excessive demands
July 23, 2026 · 32 minIn this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, Dr Ciara Earley explores the ethical challenges that arise when parental advocacy becomes increasingly demanding. Drawing on a real-world…
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2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: SickTok - Adolescent illness identity, privacy, and the role of the clinician
July 23, 2026 · 29 minIn this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, nurse Elise Burn explores the impact of social media on young people living with illness. In SickTok: Adolescent Illness…
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2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Talking with children about illness and dying
July 22, 2026 · 1 hr 11 minIn this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, Emeritus Professor Myra Bluebond-Langner and Professor Lynn Gillam explore the ethical importance of talking with children about serious…
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2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: If you hit someone with a frying pan, it’s not cooking!!!
July 21, 2026 · 30 minIn this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, social workers Dani Gold and Anna Lucia examine the ethical consequences of how family violence is documented in healthcare records. In If…
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2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: How can we make better ethical decisions in practice?
July 20, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minIn this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, Associate Professor Rosalind McDougall explores how we can make better ethical decisions in clinical practice. Drawing on a real case, she…
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2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Socrates in the clinic
July 17, 2026 · 50 minIn this opening keynote of the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, Professor John McMillan from the Bioethics Centre at the University of Otago explores how clinical ethicists can be most useful in healthcare. In Socrates in…
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2024 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Disentangling perspectives
July 16, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minMoral distress is a pervasive phenomenon in healthcare and contributes to healthcare worker burnout, turnover, and withdrawal from patient care. Dr Morley provides a brief overview of the concept of moral distress and, through a series of…
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Getting your heart dirty
August 5, 2025 · 54 minCaring for children with severe neurological impairments presents multiple challenges. As medical technology advances, the choices for clinicians and families grow in complexity. From life-prolonging interventions to deeply personal…
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How should we conceptualise suffering in children's healthcare?
May 19, 2025 · 1 hr 3 minSuffering is an important concept in medical practice, but it can be hard to be certain just what suffering is. This is amplified in paediatric practice when it can be hard to know when a child is suffering, especially if that child is a…
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Love your patient
May 19, 2025 · 37 minTyler Tate has co-authored a wonderful paper, "Love Your Patient", which explores the lost heart of medicine that is now driven by scientific and financial imperatives. In this podcast, Tyler explains his paper and makes a call to all…
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Moral distress
April 11, 2025 · 53 minMoral distress was first defined in the nursing literature (Jameton, 1984) as "the experience of knowing the right thing to do while being in a situation in which it is nearly impossible to do it". This was seen as a departure from the…
About the show
Essential Ethics, from the Children’s Bioethics Centre at The Royal Children’s Hospital (Melbourne, Australia) presents discussion of challenging cases that come up when treating children. Hear the most up-to-date thinking and draw knowledge from the ethics toolkit. After a decade or more of experience our team of world-recognised ethicists takes on the hardest cases. Essential Ethics is informative, interesting and always relevant. Hosted by Professor John Massie, a clinician and bioethicist at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.