Fellows
Lawrence J. Schneiderman, M.D.Professor
Department of Family & Preventive Medicine
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Department of Medicine
UC San Diego
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 Dr. Lawrence J. Schneiderman is an internist and noted biomedical ethicist who has gained particular recognition in recent years for his seminal work in the area of medical futility and advance directives (living wills). In the first prospective controlled study of advance directives he found that, contrary to most expectations, people who sign such directives to forgo heroic measures under hopeless conditions do not shorten their lives nor consume less medical resources. He has also conducted one of the few empirical studies (including the first prospective controlled trial) of ethics consultations, a new area of medical activity.
Dr. Schneiderman is very active in the service arena, providing ethics consultations and invited talks for a variety of audiences includingacademics and practitioners in medicine, law, the judiciary, and philosophy, as well as the lay public. He organized and chaired a statewide conference exploring the possibility of establishing standards of care with respect to medical futility.
A new area of interest is ethical issues in alternative medicine. Dr. Schneiderman has proposed, from an ethical perspective, that alternative medicine should, like traditional medicine, be defined by certain goals, principles, actions, scope of practice, measures of outcomes, and standards of evidence. |
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