Ethical dilemmas arrive in all shapes and sizes, and can affect many personal domains: health/medicine, business, career, finance, and family.
The field of ethics provides educated and skilled practitioners to aid those who are in the midst of an ethical crisis. We also work with clients to offer proactive steps to avoid ethical conflict.
Formerly on staff at The Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Bramstedt has worked in the inpatient and outpatient setting, performing over 800 consultations involving a variety of topics (e.g., end of life, living wills, futility, transplant and organ donation, research protocol review, conflict of interest assessment, moral decision-making, conflict resolution).
She has worked with patients, family members, medical teams, IRBs, the FDA, NIH, medical device companies, and attorneys. Additionally, she has published over 70 articles in peer-reviewed medical and ethics journals, and she lectures nationally and internationally. Her private practice is in Sausalito, CA and her philosophical practice certification is through the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (cert# CACC00045).
Dr. Bramstedt and co-author, Dr. Albert Jonsen, have written a book which will be available in bookstores and Amazon.com in January 2011: Finding Your Way: A Medical Ethics Handbook for Patients and Families (Hilton Publishing).
