AMA Journal of Ethics

How should we illuminate psychological sequelae of trauma? Art’s usefulness in offering insight into trauma depends on visual and expository synergy.

Interviews, photographs, drawings, and paintings explore Suzanne’s lived experience of cancer and American Indian cancer inequity.

Shared decision making is complex with patients who are adolescents, whose relational autonomy is still emerging.

In 2010, artist Shengxun Lin created Hold Me, a cast resin replica of her own hand as a comfort object and stress reliever. This work continues that practical design theme with a focus on how use and comfort augment aesthetics.

Whether a patient’s decisional regret constitutes a failure of shared decision making can depend on how a decision was made.

During immediate and long-term recovery periods, decisions must account for patients’ personal goals and possible clinical outcomes and should clarify what recovery means.

Given organ scarcity, transplantation programs state that patient promises of compliance cannot be taken at face value, excluding candidates who are deemed untrustworthy.

Shared decision making is practically difficult to implement in mental health practice but remains an ethical ideal for motivating therapeutic capacity.

Parallels between domestic and international education experiences reiterate emphasis on service.

Reimagining a classic responds to modern demands on patient-clinician relationships while suggesting the persistence of this relationship’s sanctity.