Robert Truog's guest appearances

Robert Truog

NEJM Interviews

OPENPediatrics

GeriPal

Australian Centre for Health Law Research

Hilary Seligman

David Reuben

Melissa Wachterman

Gil Rabinovici

Linda Fried

Aaron Kesselheim

Amy Kind

Scott Halpern

Keren Ladin

Mark Hall

George Church

David Hunter

Vivian Lee

George Annas

Julian Savulescu

OwlTail

In 1968 a committee at Harvard Medical School met to lay down the groundwork for a new definition of death, one that was no longer confined to the irreversible cessation of cardiopulmonary function but a new concept based on neurological criteria. Over the next 50 years, the debate over the concept of brain death has never really gone away. Rather cases like Jahi McMath have raised issues of the legitimacy of the neurologic criteria. On today's podcast, we talk with one of the leading international thought leaders on Brain Death, Dr. Robert Troug. Robert is the Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesiology &amp; Pediatrics and Director of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. He has also authored multiple articles on this topic including the Hastings Center Brain Death at Fifty: Exploring Consensus, Controversy, and Contexts and these from JAMA: - The 50-Year Legacy of the Harvard Report on Brain Death - Understanding Brain Death - Brain Death—Moving Beyond Consistency in the Diagnostic Criteria In addition to talking about how Robert got interested in the topic of brain death, we discuss the history of the concept of brain death, how we diagnose it and the variability we see around this, the recent JAMA publication from the World Brain Death Project, why brain death is not biologic death (and what is it then) and what the future is for the concept of brain death.

Brain Death: A Podcast with Robert Truog

Organ donors and the ‘dead donor rule’

Dr. Robert Truog is a professor of medical ethics, anesthesiology, and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a senior associate in critical care medicine at Children's Hospital Boston. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. R.D. Truog. 200th Anniversary Article: Patients and Doctors - The Evolution of a Relationship. N Engl J Med 2012;366:581-5.

NEJM Interview: Dr. Robert Truog on issues in medical ethics and the physician-patient relationship.