.
.

The presentation considers the responsibility of a company that retains a surgeon to demonstrate and promote its medical device in a television broadcast to doctors. The surgeon's patient did not know her operation was featured in an infomercial, nor that the sponsor was paying her doctor. Moreover the televised operation was not the one the patient should have had: the indicated procedure did not permit the use of the device. Should the corporation share responsibility for the ensuing death of the patient?

A discussion will follow.

.
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 5:00 PM
In the Medical Humanities & Bioethics suite
Room 625 of 750 N. Lake Shore Dr (at E. Superior Street), Chicago campus
.

All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

.