{"id":1924,"date":"2021-10-11T10:20:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T23:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2022-09-04T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T04:18:25","slug":"2021-vernon-collins-oration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/2021-vernon-collins-oration\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Vernon Collins Oration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2021 Vernon Collins Oration was delivered by Zoom on Wednesday October 6th by\u00a0Professor Lyn Gillam AM, Academic Director of the Children\u2019s Bioethics Centre at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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The title that she spoke to was<\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe Ethical Life of\u00a0the Hospital\u201d<\/strong>.<\/h3>\n

Prof Gillam was introduced by Prof Matt Sabin, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Director of Medical Services & Clinical Governance.<\/p>\n

Prof Gillam thanked Prof Sabin and extended thanks to A\/Prof Jenny Hynson and Dr Hugo Gold who had provided her with great support since she joined the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Ethics team. \u00a0Her lecture focussed on the broad extent in which ethical issues are part of everyday life for staff, patients, and parents at the hospital.<\/p>\n

Many people might think of ethics in terms of \u201cThe Clinical Ethics Committee\u201d or \u201cEnd of life decision making\u201d but these are but a small part of the issues which generate thinking about moral and ethical matters in the care of our patients.<\/p>\n

Should a teenage girl be asked about whether she might be pregnant before investigations or Xrays are performed? How can doctors manage when parents seek to protect their child from information that might upset them, but which can be seen as important for them to be aware of. Knowledge that other people in the car which they were passengers in when it was involved in a collision died in the accident.<\/p>\n

She spoke about \u201cVirtues in ethical life\u201d referring to \u201cCompassion, Courage, Honesty and Integrity\u201d and to the teachings of Aristotle.<\/p>\n

\u201cEthical principles are not just concepts that we learn about \u2013 but what we care about\u201d<\/p>\n

She also discussed the many situations which may cause doctors and nurses \u201cmoral distress\u201d. These are often situations that leave the staff members with \u201cbad feelings\u201d about what had been done –\u00a0 including things that they were involved with and the sense that might have failed in a moral sense producing a feeling of \u201cmoral regret\u201d. This may often leave a feeling of \u201cunease\u201d or \u201cuncertainty\u201d<\/p>\n

A recording of the Lecture can be viewed here: \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here to view<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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The 2021 Vernon Collins Oration was delivered by Zoom on Wednesday October 6th by\u00a0Professor Lyn Gillam AM, Academic Director of the Children\u2019s Bioethics Centre at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital \u00a0 The title that she spoke to was \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe Ethical Life of\u00a0the Hospital\u201d. Prof Gillam was introduced by Prof Matt Sabin, Chief Medical Officer … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}