January 2023: Patient Voices, Clinician Concerns: The Issue of Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare

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January 18th, 2023
Tom Doyle, PhD

This lecture is eligible for CE credit until Sunday, February 19th. After watching the lecture, please email [email protected].

Objectives:
1. Define and explain the term: “epistemic injustice”.
2. Illustrate how epistemic injustice impacts patient care.
3. Identify strategies to mitigate and reduce the effects of epistemic injustice within healthcare.

Dr. Doyle completed his PhD in philosophy at Purdue University in May of 2022 and started a postdoctoral fellowship at the Indiana University Center for Bioethics in June of 2022. He completed the Fairbanks Fellowship in Clinical Ethics with the 2019-2020 class. Dr. Doyle’s dissertation research focused on illness experiences and how the notion of “personalized medicine” can be expanded to also include patients’ personal experiences of their illnesses. The inspiration for Dr. Doyle’s research is often drawn from his own experience as a patient, he is a survivor of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma which he was diagnosed with during his second year of graduate studies. As a junior researcher, he is still developing his areas of research interest, but is currently working on multiple qualitative-based research projects focused on patient understanding and patient’s perceptions of their healthcare.
Outside of his research, Dr. Doyle enjoys writing poetry, painting with acrylics, and trying to keep up with a seemingly never-ending reading list.

The Ethics Lecture Series is free and open to all. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation. For additional information about the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, please visit our website at www.fairbankscenter.org.