Essential Ethics

Essential Ethics, from the Children’s Bioethics Centre at The Royal Children’s Hospital (Melbourne, Australia) presents discussion of challenging cases that come up when treating children. Hear the most up-to-date thinking and draw knowledge from the ethics toolkit. After a decade or more of experience our team of world-recognised ethicists takes on the hardest cases. Essential Ethics is informative, interesting and always relevant. Hosted by Professor John Massie, a clinician and bioethicist at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.

Essential Ethics is a health podcast hosted by The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, with 69 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne hosts Essential Ethics, a health show with 69 episodes published.

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  2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Ethics of children with rare diseases and the resulting disability participating in commercially sponsored advanced therapy clinical trials

  Jul 26, 202635 min

  In this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, research nurse coordinator Cat Wood from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute explores the ethical challenges of advanced therapy clinical trials for children with rare genetic conditions. Focusing on gene therapy trials for inherited epilepsy, she examines issues of consent, disability, risk, and equity in research involving children with severe neurodisability. Cat highlights the importance of meaningful engagement with patients and families, offering thoughtful insights into the ethical complexities of developing potentially life-changing therapies. 

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  2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference⁠: “The Squeaky Wheel,” an ethical approach to finding the balance between addressing parental concerns and managing excessive demands

  Jul 23, 202632 min

  In this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, Dr Ciara Earley explores the ethical challenges that arise when parental advocacy becomes increasingly demanding. Drawing on a real-world case, she examines how clinicians can balance responding to parental concerns with maintaining focus on the child’s best interests. Dr Earley presents a practical ethical framework to help healthcare teams navigate complex family dynamics while supporting both parents and clinicians in delivering high-quality paediatric care. 

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  2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: SickTok - Adolescent illness identity, privacy, and the role of the clinician

  Jul 23, 202629 min

  In this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, nurse Elise Burn explores the impact of social media on young people living with illness. In SickTok: Adolescent Illness, Identity, Privacy and the Role of the Clinician, she examines how online platforms can shape illness identity, influence health behaviours, and create new ethical challenges for clinicians. This thought-provoking presentation highlights the complexities of supporting adolescents in an increasingly digital world. 

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  2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Talking with children about illness and dying

  Jul 22, 20261h 11m

  In this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, Emeritus Professor Myra Bluebond-Langner and Professor Lynn Gillam explore the ethical importance of talking with children about serious illness and dying. Drawing on decades of research and clinical experience, they examine truth-telling, the changing role of parents, and how conversations can be centred on a child’s lived experience rather than age alone. Their presentations and discussion offer compassionate, practical insights into supporting children, families, and clinicians through some of healthcare’s most challenging conversations. 

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  2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: If you hit someone with a frying pan, it’s not cooking!!!

  Jul 21, 202630 min

  In this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, social workers Dani Gold and Anna Lucia examine the ethical consequences of how family violence is documented in healthcare records. In If you hit someone with a frying pan, it’s not cooking, they argue that softened or minimising language can obscure harm and undermine patient dignity. Drawing on their expertise in family violence and child safety, they offer practical strategies for more accurate, respectful documentation and highlight why every response to violence carries ethical significance. 

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