Ethics Grand Rounds: "Must We Always Listen to the Health Care Proxy? Can We Define the Tipping Point of Unreasonableness?"

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Kenneth Prager, MD is Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Director, Clinical Ethics and Chairman of the Medical Ethics Committee of Columbia University Medical Center. He spent two years practicing general medicine on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota after his medical internship. Dr. Prager held clandestine medical clinics in the Soviet Union during a visit in 1986, and later set up the first U.S. - Soviet medical student exchange program between Columbia P&S and the First Moscow Medical Academy. In addition to his pulmonary practice, Dr. Prager is heavily involved in teaching pulmonology and medical ethics to medical students, house officers and nurses. His writings on medicine and medical ethics have appeared on the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal as well as in medical journals and textbooks. He lectures extensively on medical ethics. Dr. Prager is on the admissions committee of, and is a regular guest lecturer for, the Ben Gurion University MD Program in International Health and Medicine in collaboration with Columbia University Health Sciences. He is on the Board of Directors of the American Council on Science and Health.

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