Carleton Connects: Professor Daniel Groll

Over the past 50 years, the idea that patients have the right to make decisions about their own medical care has become a, if not the, central tenet of clinical medicine. In recent years, however, a series of scholars have argued that some degree of clinician paternalism -- where the clinician intercedes in the patient's decision for the patient's own good -- is ok.  Join Carleton Connects and Assistant Professor of Philosophy Daniel Groll for "Persuasion at the bedside: what can clinicians do to help patients make decisions?"   He  explorse the issues of autonomy and paternalism in clinical medicine and offers a framework for understanding the different ways we might think about the role of the clinician in a clinical encounter. Want more?  View some case studies selected by Professor Groll here (available for 1 week following program).