Bioethics for the People – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, Stefano Mugnaini shares a success story about how he was able to work with wardens on behalf of incarcerated patients.

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Devin, we're back season. 6 Tyler, we're back season six.Can you believe it?No, I I can't believe we're still doing this, but here we go again.Here we go again by popular demand.People just love the podcast.Yeah, I cannot believe that we have so many people who not only listen but also care that we put out new content. 

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So this season is going to be a smorgasbord, a variety of different topics.So one of those topics that I'm excited about is success stories.So we're gathering stories from clinical ethicists around the country, maybe around the world, who have done something really positive for their hospital system, made a big change because they were there. 

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We spent a lot of time talking about difficult cases, a lot of episodes about really hard things in medicine and healthcare, but I'm excited to see what kind of success stories people are able to share.So really exciting.We're also going to talk about AI in healthcare. 

1:08 

Lots of interesting topics, questions, controversies, lots of confusion and clarification that needs to be.Set straight and we promised those episodes weren't written by AI.At least not all of them.So, Devin, we have very interesting jobs. 

1:28 

Often times people who I tell about my job are equal parts confused and amused that somebody gets paid to do something like what we do.But that got me thinking about jobs that maybe we thought that we were going to do. 

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So my question to you is, when you were small, what occupation did you tell people that you were going to have as an adult?The only thing I can ever remember saying as a kid was that I thought I'd want to be a lawyer because my mom was a lawyer. 

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And as she was really inspirational, so I thought, you know, and I like to argue.Perhaps because I grew up in a household where arguing at the dinner table was sort of a prerequisite to eating.That's hilarious.I've noticed that often children who have maybe better than average social skills, who like to argue, like to ask the question why can hold a conversation with an adult, often get told that they're they ought to be a lawyer when they. 

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Grow up.Do you think that translates into a good lawyer?No, I think it's got nothing to do with being a good lawyer unless you're playing a lawyer on TV.So when I was little, I always told people that I wanted to be a rodeo clown when I got big. 

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What?Who thinks of that?How did you even know what a rodeo clown was?Well, I grew up in Indiana there, I mean, rodeos, horses, outdoor, like, yeah, went to a County High school.So I, I don't remember when it started, but I think that probably I went to a rodeo County Fair, maybe as a small child and just latched on to telling people I wanted to be a rodeo clown and got some sort of funny reaction to it and kept doing it all the way through high school. 

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And I remember telling my high school guidance counselor who was concerned about my future, that I wanted to be a rodeo clown.And the next time that I had my follow up meeting with her, she had researched rodeo schools or clown schools in the South as an option for me after high schools. 

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I'd say I could see it, but that is a dangerous job, Tyler, I I just cannot see you running around in a clown suit trying to avoid the bull.Yeah, I think it was better as a as a kid.I I don't think that it would be something I'd be good at or enjoy at this. 

3:52 

Point your talents would have been wasted.You are my favorite podcast host of all time.Oh gosh, that's very nice of you to say.This season is gonna be, like we said, a variety of different things, topics, and it's gonna be coming out, episodes are gonna come out as we finish them. 

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So in the past, we've kind of tried to cluster them, but every Thursday, not every Thursday, let's be clear, many Thursdays upcoming in the fall, we're going to be releasing new content, new episodes.People are always welcome to send in more comments, more suggestions, more links to articles they'd like us to respond to on our website or however else they can. 

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Yeah, and if you didn't know, tons of great merch on the website, so check it out.Merch.My kids kept telling me that we needed to put some merch out.So we've got some hats, some coffee mugs, stickers.I tried to get us golf shoes with our faces on them. 

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No go.No go, too expensive.All right, well, we do have a surprising article of clothing on that website, so you really have to check it out.I don't want to spoil it.Yeah, all right.Season 6 coming soon. 

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