The Bioethics service at University Health Network helps patients, families,
and health-care professionals deal with difficult ethical issues in patient
care. Staff, patients or family members can request a consult for bioethics
services.
The bioethicist has special training in ethics, philosophy, and conflict
resolution, and provides confidential consultation and mediation. The goal
of bioethics services is not to impose values on others, but to assist individuals
and groups in solving complex ethical problems so that they may make informed
decisions about treatment.
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What we do:
- Provide confidential consultation for patients, families, and
health-care providers on ethical issues in patient care
- Identify ethical issues in patient-care situations
- Ensure all relevant facts, values, and options are explored
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- Help patients, families and health-care teams understand and explore
available treatment options, and the likely outcomes of each
- Help those involved make decisions about the ethical issues
- Mediate to assist groups or individuals when there is a difference
of opinion or values about a particular patient care situation
- Participate in the Research Ethics Board, to address ethical issues
in research at UHN
- Provide education to professionals on ethical issues in patient
care
- Research ethical issues in patient care
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Contact Us
Toronto General Hospital
College Wing, 3-315
Linda Wright
Telephone: (416) 340-4800 ext. 8750
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