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The third-ranking diplomat at the Chinese Embassy in DC, Minister Jing Quan, will be visiting Furman on Tuesday, November 1. In addition to a long slate of diplomatic postings, he also served as a Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution in 2004 and 2005. Minister Jing will give a public address at 11:30 a.m. in the Watkins […]

"What Ought a Physician Do? Health Care Professionals and the Spiritual Concerns of Their Patients" (Program 1) November 1, 7:00 p.m., Younts Conference Center This event is intended for Health Care Professionals, Medical Students, Furman Faculty, and Furman MSCEM students. If seats are available, it will be opened to Furman pre-health students later. There will […]

"What Ought a Physician Do? Obligations to Patients in the Case of Treatments that Violate the Caregiver’s Ethical Beliefs" (Program 2) November 2, 1:30 p.m. (Location TBA with registration.) This event is intended for Furman Faculty, Furman MSCEM students, and Furman Pre-Health students. If seats are available, it will be opened to other Furman students. […]

“Spirituality & End-of-Life Care: What I Learned from Fred” November 2, 6:30, Daniel Chapel Speaker: Dr. Daniel Sulmasy, MD, Ph.D. (Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Senior Research Scholar, Georgetown University) In this lecture, Fred’s story is formative in Dr. Sulmasy’s thinking, and this unique but also universal end-of-life narrative is the vehicle for […]