ER Doc to speak at Avon Library on End-Of-Life Planning

Join us at The Avon Public Library for our Fall series, “Medical Ethics: A Dialog” with Thomas Robey MD, PhD. The series is designed to stimulate group discussion of contemporary medical ethics issues, and accompanied by a suggested reading list for each program. Dr. Robey is Emergency Physician and Ethics Committee Chair at Waterbury Hospital, and a popular presenter at the Avon Public Library

Thursday, 10/22, 7:00 pm: Death on Your Own Terms: Making Sense of End-of-Life Planning

Suggested Reading:
A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life by Jeanne Fitzpatrick
Being Mortal by Atwul Gawande
How we die, Sherwin Nuland
Dying Well by Ira Byock

Tuesday, 11/17, 7:00 pm: Who Gets What When: How Disasters Collide with Ethics and Medicine
Suggested Reading:
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink

Suggested reading materials are available at the Avon Library.

All programs are free and open to the public, no registration necessary. For more information call the Avon Public Library 860-673-9712 or view online at www.avonctlibrary.info. The Avon Public Library is at 281 Country Club Rd. Avon, CT