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SUMMARY:Perioperative Communication and Decision Making:  A social science
  perspective - Professor Lee Fleisher\, Professor of Anesthesiology\, Univ
 ersity of Pennsylvania
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CONTACT:Helen Gardner
DESCRIPTION:Lee A. Fleisher\, MD\, is the Robert D. Dripps Professor and C
 hair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Professor of Medicine at the 
 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.\n\nBecause of the 
 high stakes of surgical intervention and related care\, communication betw
 een doctors and patients as they make decisions in the perioperative space
  has garnered substantial attention from researchers\, policymakers\, and 
 ethicists. Perioperative medicine figures prominently in national and inte
 rnational discussions about\, for example\, how best to involve patients i
 n their care\, the role of informed consent\, the appropriateness of inter
 vention vs. palliation at end of life\, and how to communicate about pain 
 amidst an ongoing opioid crisis.  Yet despite the centrality of perioperat
 ive medicine to these issues\, it is only recently that the methodological
  and theoretical toolkit of the social sciences has been applied to the em
 pirical analysis of perioperative communication and decision making in rob
 ust fashion.  This talk will present a series of perioperative studies\, m
 ost using a focused ethnographic approach\, that exhibit the ability of so
 cial science to generate novel descriptive models that reframe debates in 
 policy and ethics and\, in turn\, reveal new paths for research and interv
 ention.\n\n*This talk is free and open to all\, no booking required.*
LOCATION:Small Seminar Room\, Institute of Public Health\, Forvie Site\, R
 obinson Way\, Cambridge CB2 0SR
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