Act One

Act Two

Act Three

Ethics, codes of conduct, and challenging decisions are universal constants in medicine. Difficult situations and trying to do the right thing are not always obvious particularly when these decisions involve lots of emotions, family members, and have life and death implications. Ethics, and ethics committees, can help to provide a clear and consensus path for clinicians, patients, and family members. We discuss the role ethics and ethics committees have in modern medicine with our special guest.

This is the story of clinical ethics.

Useful links:

Free critical thinking course through UQ school of philosophy

Clinical Ethics Society of Australasia – Great organisation focusing on clinical ethics, with affordable membership and lots of access to resources. They run an excellent ‘ethics intensive’ and yearly symposium as well as other masterclasses throughout the year.

Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law – Major organisation for ethics and health law. Excellent conference each year.

Links to Dr Melanie Jansen’s poetry

Instragram: @drmelaniejansen_poetry

Dr Melanie Jansen’s debut poetry collection, All That Could Be Lost, is available online from 5 Islands Press and at independent bookstores.

Our Special Guest:

Dr Melanie Jansen who is a clinical ethicist and paediatric intensive care consultant

Listen:

This Medical Life podcast is available on all podcasting services and Spotify. Members of the RACGP are able to log the hours as CPD (Education) that they listen to the episodes under self record via Quick log. We invite you to help support us on our donation page.

Ethics, codes of conduct, and challenging decisions are universal constants in medicine. Difficult situations and trying to do the right thing are not always obvious particularly when these decisions involve lots of emotions, family members, and have life and death implications. Ethics, and ethics committees, can help to provide a clear and consensus path for clinicians, patients, and family members. We discuss the role ethics and ethics committees have in modern medicine with our special guest.
This is the story of clinical ethics.
Useful links:
<a href="https://hpi.uq.edu.au/study-online-philosophy-and-critical-thinking-course">Free critical thinking course through UQ school of philosophy</a>
<a href="https://www.clinicalethicssociety.org/cesa-news/save-the-date-28-oct-2026-so-you-want-to-start-a-clinical-ethics-service">Clinical Ethics Society of Australasia</a>&nbsp;&ndash; Great organisation focusing on clinical ethics, with affordable membership and lots of access to resources. They run an excellent &lsquo;ethics intensive&rsquo; and yearly symposium as well as other masterclasses throughout the year.
<a href="https://aabhl.org/about-us/">Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law</a>&nbsp;&ndash; Major organisation for ethics and health law. Excellent conference each year.
<a href="https://www.drmjansen.com/">Links to Dr Melanie Jansen&rsquo;s poetry</a>
Instragram:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/drmelaniejansen_poetry/">@drmelaniejansen_poetry</a>
Dr Melanie Jansen&rsquo;s debut poetry collection,&nbsp;All That Could Be Lost, is available online from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.5islandspress.com/category/all-products">5 Islands Press</a>&nbsp;and at independent bookstores.
Our Special Guest:
Dr Melanie Jansen who is a clinical ethicist and paediatric intensive care consultant
Listen:
This Medical Life podcast is available on all podcasting services and Spotify. Members of the RACGP are able to log the hours as&nbsp;<a href="https://thismedicallife.com.au/cpd-hours/" data-type="page" data-id="437">CPD (Education)</a>&nbsp;that they listen to the episodes under self record via Quick log.&nbsp;<a href="https://thismedicallife.com.au/buy/donation">We invite you to help support us on our donation page</a>.

Welcome to the This Medical Life podcast. Our mission is to share stories about the triumphs and tragedies of diseases and illnesses from ancient times up until what we know today. It is about those scientific and medical minds who came before us and how, every single day, we stand on the shoulders of giants. This is a podcast about the stories of medicine.


Hosted by Dr. Travis Brown and Steve Davis, our target audience is General Practitioners, medical students, and other health professionals. We hope to educate, inspire and celebrate those who choose to care for others in their profession. From experience, we know that our audience extends beyond these fields and would like to welcome anyone to listen. The stories of those who came before us are nothing short of remarkable and we hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

Production by Tim Whiffen

Design by Tom Buzz