Douglas S Diekema
Emergency Physician (Pediatric) | Pediatric Emergency Medicine
4800 Sand Point Way Ne Seattle WA, 98105About
Douglas S. Diekema, MD, MPH, is attending physician and director of education for the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children
Education and Training
Univ of Nc At Chapel Hill Sch of Med, Chapel Hill Nc 1985
Physician Assistant Studies, Barry University, FL 1985
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Discordant radiograph interpretation between emergency physicians and radiologists in a pediatric emergency department.
- Withdrawing and withholding life-sustaining treatment in children.
- It's wrong to treat VIPs better than other patients.
- Involuntary sterilization of persons with mental retardation: an ethical analysis.
- Taking children seriously: what's so important about assent?
- Age-based rationing and women.
- Parental refusals of medical treatment: the harm principle as threshold for state intervention.
- Responding to parental refusals of immunization of children.
- DNAR in the schools: watch your language!
- Conducting ethical research in pediatrics: a brief historical overview and review of pediatric regulations.
- Ethical issues arising from the participation of children in genetic research.
- Attenuating growth in children with profound developmental disability: a new approach to an old dilemma.
- The case of A.R.: the ethics of sibling donor bone marrow transplantation revisited.
- The armchair ethicist: it's all about location.
- Public health, ethics, and state compulsion.
Treatments
- Bioethics
- Asthma
- Fever
- Gastroenteritis
- Pain
- Urinary Tract Infection (uti)
Fellowships
- Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- UW - Dept. of Pediatrics Fellowships
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Practice At 4800 Sand Point Way Ne
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