Withdrawal of Life Support: Medical Decisions at the End of Physical Life

Please join us for a talk by Frederick Mihm, Professor of Anaesthesia at the Stanford Medical School, on 'Withdrawal of Life Support: Medical Decisions at the End of Physical Life'. Dinner will be served at 6:30pm before the talk and discussion will follow.

Dr. Mihm will address medicine's view on life, ethics of medical practice and review some of the most controversial aspects of end of life issues. Seven patient case histories and end of life decisions are outlined in a document posted at http://www.stanford.edu/group/ivgrad/MihmHandout.doc. Please consider them before the talk and

email Dr. Mihm at fmihm[at]stanford[dot]edu on what you consider the most controversial or challenging situation.

Frederick Mihm is Professor of Anesthesia at the Stanford Medical School. His major area of interest is Critical Care Medicine, and the care of complex medical patients requiring high risk anesthetics and surgery. Dr. Mihm was an undergraduate at Evangel University and received his MD from Saint Louis University. He trained in internal medicine at USC and UC Irvine before changing tracks to Anaesthesiology at Stanford and Harvard. He has been on the anaesthesia faculty at Stanford since 1979.

Aside from his routine academic duties, Dr. Mihm has also assisted in the anesthetic management of rare and exotic animal species and participated in short-term medical missions to under-developed countries of the world, most recently Bolivia and Bangladesh.