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RE's Medical Ethics Roundtable series opens at Holzman Center of Applied Ethics

Ransom Everglades opened its 2024-25 Medical Ethics Roundtable series at the Holzman Center of Applied Ethics on September 26. Dr. Ken Zide, an RE parent and local physician, served as facilitator, leading a group of students and faculty in a discussion of the ethics of providing life-saving care to a person whose medical beliefs do not condone such treatment.
Students gathered during the mid-day break in the Ransom Cottage to examine the case of a 16-year-old Jehovah's Witness in need of a blood transfusion as a life-saving intervention. Zide and Associate Head of School John A. King Jr. challenged students to consider how to balance a physician's ethical commitment to beneficence ("doing good for patients") with the ethical commitment to autonomy ("the patient's right to make informed decisions about their healthcare"). 

The Holzman Center of Applied Ethics, which opened at RE in 2021, is dedicated to helping RE students engage in ethical decision-making and to act with honor, excellence and integrity at RE and beyond. 
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.