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Prudence in Public Health

Mon, Oct 12

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Join us in a lecture with our guest presenter, Dr. Stuart Wolf, M.D., on how prudence informs the complex choices at the intersection of personal freedom and societal responsibility with regards to health care.

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Prudence in Public Health
Prudence in Public Health

Time & Location

Oct 12, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ

About The Event

Based on his own experience as a medical doctor, Dr. Stuart Wolf will help us explore how prudence informs the complex choices at the intersection of personal freedom and societal responsibility with regards to health care. These matters are especially pertinent during the current COVID-19 pandemic, but they are certainly not new to doctors, regularly called to apply general rules and principles to very specific and unique cases (and human beings), based on their best - prudential - judgment.

About our presenter

Stuart Wolf, Jr., M.D., FACS, Associate Chair of Clinical Integration and Operations, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Professor, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care Division Chief, Surgical Subspecialties, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care

Stuart Wolf, M.D., FACS, is associate chair of clinical integration and operations, chief of the Division of Surgical Subspecialties and professor for the Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care.

After receiving his M.D.…

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