Video Catalog

• Abortion Denied Because parental consent and /or notification laws for abortion discourage teens from seeking the help that they need, several leading medical and adolescent health organizations actively oppose them. This video demonstrates convincingly that the parental consent and/or notification laws are a mistake.

• Borderline Medicine Walter Cronkite narrates this objective comparison in the management, operation, and funding of the American and Canadian health care systems. This program suggests that we can learn from the Canadian system and move toward developing a better system that offers affordable health care to all Americans.

• Born Dying This program examines the ethical issues surrounding the birth of a multiply handicapped baby. A number of concerned individuals who have an interest in the parents' decision to treat or not to treat offer them advice.

• Defensive Documentation This practical video teaches health professionals to think defensively when charting patient records and highlights six steps that are essential to documentation.

• The DNR Dilemma Part I dramatizes the anxieties physicians face in talking with terminally ill patients about resuscitation options; Part II offers personal commentary by noted health professionals who work daily with dying patients.

• Domestic Violence: Voices from Within This video explores the relationships that support domestic violence through conversations with an abuser and two victims.

• Domestic Violence: The Right to be Safe This video gives abused women practical advice on how to seek orders of protection to prevent further violence. It explores how to prepare for court and how to present oneself to a judge in order to convince him/her of the validity of your claims of abuse.

• Facing Alzheimer's: Legal and Financial Considerations For those suffering from Alzheimer's, advance planning is the best way to offset the loss of control in their lives. This video shows how a mother, daughter, and son work together to organize and care for the mother as her disability progresses. Legal and financial issues are discussed and guidelines provided.
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• Fools' Dance This video is a parody of life in a contemporary American convalescent home where a patient with a penchant for Shakespeare reaffirms the joy of living despite the presence of old age and death.

• A Friend of the Family This unique video teaches physicians communication techniques for discussing difficult subjects. The three vignettes presented will help physicians find the right words to say and the right way to say them and help ease the way for future interactions.

• The Law and Persons with Mental Disability This 6-part series is designed to serve as a resource for attorneys practicing mental disability law, for advocates working with individuals who are or have been institutionalized because of mental disability, for mental health professionals who tesitfy in such cases, for hospital administrators, and others who are subject to legal regulation.

• Living Choices This video is designed to encourage everyone to recognize the importance of completing health care treatment directives and durable powers of attorney to insure that their wishes will be carried out if they should become unable to make decisions for themselves. It explains the provisions of the Patient Self Determination Act and clears up common misconceptions about advance directives.

• More Than Words This three part series examines the attitudes and lack of knowledge that perpetuate domestic violence and the significant roll healthcare and other professionals can play in providing assistance and support to battered women.

• No Heroic Measures This program is intended to stimulate discussion among health professionals about the legal/ethical issues involved in removal of a feeding tube from an elderly, mentally incompetent patient. It explores the issue of substituted judgement since the request is made by a relative.

• One of Our Own AIDS in the Workplace: This corporate training package discusses legal issues and provides a model for planning a corporate strategy on HIV-infected employees. It examines the ethical implications of avoiding responsibiity for employees with AIDS.

• Physicians and AIDS: The Ethical Response In spite of continuing education, health professionals are still reluctant to treat seropositive patients. The medical community has been increasingly divided by a debate over whether or not physicians' refusal to treat patients with HIV infection can be reconciled with the ethical responsibilities of the profession. The surgeon in this drama is faced with performing surgery on an HIV infected patient and trying to come to terms with his own reservations.
  
  
• The Right to Die A man with ALS who has carefully arranged his legal affairs to keep from being put on life support finds himself venitlator dependent after an auto accident. His request for his physician to remove his ventilator is denied and the case is brought before the hospital ethics committee.
  
  
• Running Home A timely drama about four troubled teens who consider running away on Christmas Eve to escape the harsh reality of their unhappy family situations. The story is told in flashback by Speed, the only one of the four who actually decides to leave home. The video takes the viewer inside each teen's home and explores the range of abusive behavior he or she must endure. There are no happy endings; the video is a candid, honest depiction of problems facing today's young people.

• Sexual Harassment in Healthcare This video dicusses what sexual harassment is, the different types of sexual harassment, how it affects healthcare workers, and what an individual can and should do if he/she is a victim of sexual harassment.

• Shadow of Addiction Produced and narrated by a recovering heroin addict, this video takes the viewer on a tour of the dark side of addiction. Addicts in a crack house, inmates in a medium security prison, and an inmate on death row graphically relate their experiences and serve as dramatic examples of the personal losses caused by drugs: loss of faith, family, fortune, health, education, and future.

• What's Ailing Medicine Narrated by Walter Cronkite, this startling documentary looks at the human side of the complex and controversial issue of health care reform. The plight of the unisured, the vulnerability of the uninsured, and the wasteful and sometimes dangerous overuse of medical procedures are all brought into focus by the riveting real-life stories of families who have been ill-served by our existing system. Features Hillary Clinton and Senator Bob Dole.