Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law

📚 Pre-order my book to get an exclusive ticket to The Feel-Good Productivity Annual Planning Workshop! Website: https://www.feelgoodproductivity.com/?utm_campaign=bonus&utm_source=youtube_long&utm_medium=video_description&utm_content=bulkvidsbefore2021 Amazon: https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/bulkvidsbefore2021 In this video, we'll be discussing some of the ethical and legal issues raised by the case of Charlie Gard. Charlie (4 August 2016 – 28 July 2017) was born with a rare, incurable and life-limiting disease called MDDS. His case became controversial because the medical team and parents disagreed about whether experimental treatment was in Charlie's best interests. Abi and I are 6th year medical students at Cambridge University, and in this video we've tried to introduce you to some of the issues that Charlie's case brought up. We've made every effort to check our facts, and have referenced a number of useful resources (that we ourselves used) below. If we've made any mistakes, or if you disagree with our analyses, please do comment below - we'd love to learn from you. 💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://aliabdaal.com/newsletter/ 🌍 My website / blog - https://www.aliabdaal.com 🎙My weekly podcast - https://www.youtube.com/c/notoverthinking 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal 🎮 Twitch - https://twitch.tv/aliabdaal TIMESTAMPS 00:38 - What happened in Charlie's case - A summary 02:56 - Opening remarks from Justice Francis' statement 05:12 - The legal side of things 06:00 ----- Dr Hirano's experimental treatment 08:08 - Moving on to the ethical issues 09:10 - 5 ethical issues raised by Charlie's case 09:50 - #1 - Autonomy 11:40 ----- UK vs USA systems 14:05 - #2 - Beneficence vs Non-maleficence 18:02 - #3 - Justice / Allocation of resources 19:37 - #4 - The ethics of experimental treatments on children 21:38 - #5 - Was this euthanasia? 24:19 - Wider social issues raised by Charlie's