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Upstate nurse practitioner and palliative care specialist Patricia Lippincott Knox, MSN, FNP, helps us understand the importance of advance directives – the planning and documents that instruct others about your medical care should you be unable to make decisions on your own – including a living will, health care proxy, and do not resuscitate order (DNR). 

Resources: Caring Connections – provides free advance directives and instructions; Advance care planning, from the NYS Department of Health; Respecting Choices

Susan Sprague received a kidney-pancreas transplant at Upstate in 1997 that saved her life. She was chosen to ride on the Donate Life Float in the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, and talks about her deep gratitude to her own organ donor, and what it means to be able to highlight the critical need for organ donors locally and nationally.  

The Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network

Syracuse organ recipient will be on “Donate Life” float in Rose Parade, The Syracuse Post Standard

Renown bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan from the University of Pennsylvania will be in Syracuse for a special seminar sponsored by Upstate Medical University’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities on April 12.   Dr. Caplan talks about the ethics of the allocation of organs for transplant.

Read more about:
Dr. Caplan’s seminar on April 12: “Are We Going Too Far to Get Organs for Transplant?”
Dr. Caplan’s article: How Target-ed advertising strips away our privacy