Articles

Moral distress can be reduced by approaching the patient-physician relationship with empathy and humility, which foster trust and good communication.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinions related to moral distress and medicine.

Students’ decision making about ethical dilemmas can be supported via education, faculty development, and structures for reporting professionalism lapses.

Ethics education can prompt reconsideration of beliefs that lead to moral distress.

Transparency about teaching hospitals’ educational mission respects patient autonomy and aligns patients’ interests with those of trainees and the public.

Introduction to the June 2017 issue on moral distress and medicine.

Interdisciplinary ethics consultation helps address organizational policies, practices, and structures that can be sources of moral distress.

Hospital medicine must expand its mission to include the teaching of medical ethics, professionalism, and communication to trainees during clinical rounds.

Medical education must acknowledge the problematic use of race as a biological or epidemiological risk factor in research and the controversy over race.

Introduction to the May 2017 issue on ethics in mental health and oncology.