Alicia R. Ouellette, Timothy Quill, Robert Swidler, Thaddeus Mason Pope, and Nancy Dubler, A Conversation About End-of-Life Decisionmaking (January 8, 2010). NYSBA Health Law Journal Vol. 14, No. 2, 2009; Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-05. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1533517
In July 2009, five scholars and practitioners engaged in a two-hour conversation about current end-of-life health issues in New York state. Thaddeus Pope (Widener Law), Alicia Ouellette (Albany Law), Timothy Quill (Rochester Medicine), Robert Swidler (Northeast Health), and Nancy Dubler (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) discussed the Family Healthcare Decisions Act, medical futility, palliative care, and bioethics mediation. This article, part of a symposium issue of health law “conversations,” is a substantially-edited transcript of the July 2009 conversation.
