Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On any given day, healthcare providers face a handful of complex ethical questions. When does life-sustaining treatment do more harm than good? How do you discharge a teenage patient with nowhere to go? Who makes decisions for an unidentified, unconscious patient that needs urgent treatment?
The monthly forum, Ethics for Lunch, aims to better prepare clinicians for tough questions like these. Once a month during lunchtime, as many as 40 members of the Johns Hopkins Hospital community–including physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, administrators, ethics faculty, nursing students, and medical students–are provided a light meal as they gather to hear from a multidisciplinary panel on a clinical ethics topic.
The program, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Hospital Ethics Committee and Consultation Service, has been growing since 2015 with support from the Freeman Family Fund.
To learn more about Ethics for Lunch, visit https://giving.jhu.edu/story/ethics-for-lunch/
On any given day, healthcare providers face a handful of complex ethical questions. When does life-sustaining treatment do more harm than good? How do you discharge a teenage patient with nowhere to go? Who makes decisions for an unidentified, unconscious patient that needs urgent treatment?
The monthly forum, Ethics for Lunch, aims to better prepare clinicians for tough questions like these. Once a month during lunchtime, as many as 40 members of the Johns Hopkins Hospital community–including physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, administrators, ethics faculty, nursing students, and medical students–are provided a light meal as they gather to hear from a multidisciplinary panel on a clinical ethics topic.
The program, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Hospital Ethics Committee and Consultation Service, has been growing since 2015 with support from the Freeman Family Fund.
To learn more about Ethics for Lunch, visit https://giving.jhu.edu/story/ethics-for-lunch/
