This episode explores how clinicians currently involve adolescents in their medical decision making, and how they should involve them. We unpack the tricky transitory space that exists between deciding for younger children, to deciding with these young people who have an increased capacity for reasoning, weighing choices and decision-making. We also consider how far paediatricians should go to promote decision making with adolescents. Host: Prof John Massie. Guests: Dr Mick Creati, RCH adolescent physician and Prof Lynn Gillam, Children's Bioethics Centre, RCH.

Deciding with Children 5: When the Stakes are High (Oncology)

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.