Featured Content Health Law Mar 2023 Holding Clinicians in Public Office Accountable to Professional Standards Wendy E. Parmet, JD and Claudia E. Haupt, PhD, JSD Medicine and Society Aug 2024 Can Medical-Legal Partnerships Do More to Advance Reproductive Justice After Dobbs? Medha Devanagondi Makhlouf, JD and Natasha Rappazzo Policy Forum Oct 2023 Why We Must Prevent and Appropriately Manage Delirium Jennifer M. Connell, MD, Maria C. Duggan, MD, MPH, and Jo Ellen Wilson, MD, PhD, MPH History of Medicine Dec 2024 Hospital Design Standards and the AMA Jorie Braunold, MLIS Articles Case and Commentary Jul 2025 When Is It Acceptable to Terminate Resuscitation in Prehospital Settings? Christopher Libby, MD, MPH and Scott H. Pasichow, MD, MPH Ethics and science inform EMTs’ and paramedics’ decisions to initiate, continue, or terminate resuscitation. AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E484-490. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.484. Policy Forum Jul 2025 How Should Rural EMS Funding Streams Be Improved? James Small, MJA, CPM EMS responses are critical functions of local governments, yet, in rural areas, many EMS systems are staffed by licensed volunteers. Read in: Español AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E518-524. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.518. Medical Education Jul 2025 How Should We Fund and Reimagine EMS to Support Sustainable Rural Health Infrastructure? Michael Levy, MD EMS care in rural areas of the United States has suffered from being chronically under-resourced and understaffed. AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E503-509. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.503. Personal Narrative Jul 2025 I Pressed Down David M. Sine, DBioethics Situational awareness means that good care might not only be about the patient. AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E537-540. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.537. Case and Commentary Jul 2025 According to Which Criteria Should a Return EMS Trip of Long Duration and Distance Be Deemed Ethically Justifiable? Casey Patrick, MD Assessing and adequately documenting a patient’s decision-making capacity is a responsibility and skill required of all EMS personnel. Read in: Español AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E491-496. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.491. Medicine and Society Jul 2025 EMS Service Integration in American Indian and Native Alaskan Rural Communities Chelsea Tsasse and John Shufeldt, MD, JD, MBA Cultural humility, cost-effectiveness, equity, and tribal sovereignty are key to improving EMS responsiveness in AI/NA rural communities. AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E525-529. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.525. From the Editor Jul 2025 What Makes Rural EMS in the US a Health Equity Concern? Molly Nguyen, MD and Tanya Shenoy, MD Despite their essential functions, rural EMS systems are often underfunded and understaffed to the point at which health equity is severely compromised. AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E481-483. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.481. State of the Art and Science Jul 2025 Which Technologies Should Be Used to Improve Prehospital Emergency Services? Sophia Görgens, MD Barriers to maintaining EMS in rural areas include personnel shortages, long travel times, and austere settings. Read in: Español AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E510-517. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.510. Case and Commentary Jul 2025 When Is It Justifiable for an Inexperienced but Licensed Clinician to Perform a High-Risk but Low-Frequency Procedure on a Patient in a Prehospital Setting? Elizabeth Reiche, DO, Shaila Coffey, MD, and Emma Zeratsky, NRP, FP-C In prehospital settings, clinicians make difficult decisions that need to be made quickly and be within their scope of practice and skill set. Read in: Español AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E497-502. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.497. History of Medicine Jul 2025 What Might the Past Suggest About Rural Emergency Services Amidst Critical Access Hospitals’ Decline? Siân Lewis-Bevan, MD, MPH, EMT-B and Stephen Powell, MD Recent rural hospital closures influence clinical and ethical dimensions of emergency care. Read in: Español AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E530-536. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.530. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Health Law Mar 2023 Holding Clinicians in Public Office Accountable to Professional Standards Wendy E. Parmet, JD and Claudia E. Haupt, PhD, JSD
Medicine and Society Aug 2024 Can Medical-Legal Partnerships Do More to Advance Reproductive Justice After Dobbs? Medha Devanagondi Makhlouf, JD and Natasha Rappazzo
Policy Forum Oct 2023 Why We Must Prevent and Appropriately Manage Delirium Jennifer M. Connell, MD, Maria C. Duggan, MD, MPH, and Jo Ellen Wilson, MD, PhD, MPH
Case and Commentary Jul 2025 When Is It Acceptable to Terminate Resuscitation in Prehospital Settings? Christopher Libby, MD, MPH and Scott H. Pasichow, MD, MPH Ethics and science inform EMTs’ and paramedics’ decisions to initiate, continue, or terminate resuscitation. AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E484-490. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.484.
Policy Forum Jul 2025 How Should Rural EMS Funding Streams Be Improved? James Small, MJA, CPM EMS responses are critical functions of local governments, yet, in rural areas, many EMS systems are staffed by licensed volunteers. Read in: Español AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E518-524. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.518.
Medical Education Jul 2025 How Should We Fund and Reimagine EMS to Support Sustainable Rural Health Infrastructure? Michael Levy, MD EMS care in rural areas of the United States has suffered from being chronically under-resourced and understaffed. AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E503-509. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.503.
Personal Narrative Jul 2025 I Pressed Down David M. Sine, DBioethics Situational awareness means that good care might not only be about the patient. AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E537-540. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.537.
Case and Commentary Jul 2025 According to Which Criteria Should a Return EMS Trip of Long Duration and Distance Be Deemed Ethically Justifiable? Casey Patrick, MD Assessing and adequately documenting a patient’s decision-making capacity is a responsibility and skill required of all EMS personnel. Read in: Español AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E491-496. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.491.
Medicine and Society Jul 2025 EMS Service Integration in American Indian and Native Alaskan Rural Communities Chelsea Tsasse and John Shufeldt, MD, JD, MBA Cultural humility, cost-effectiveness, equity, and tribal sovereignty are key to improving EMS responsiveness in AI/NA rural communities. AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E525-529. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.525.
From the Editor Jul 2025 What Makes Rural EMS in the US a Health Equity Concern? Molly Nguyen, MD and Tanya Shenoy, MD Despite their essential functions, rural EMS systems are often underfunded and understaffed to the point at which health equity is severely compromised. AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E481-483. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.481.
State of the Art and Science Jul 2025 Which Technologies Should Be Used to Improve Prehospital Emergency Services? Sophia Görgens, MD Barriers to maintaining EMS in rural areas include personnel shortages, long travel times, and austere settings. Read in: Español AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E510-517. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.510.
Case and Commentary Jul 2025 When Is It Justifiable for an Inexperienced but Licensed Clinician to Perform a High-Risk but Low-Frequency Procedure on a Patient in a Prehospital Setting? Elizabeth Reiche, DO, Shaila Coffey, MD, and Emma Zeratsky, NRP, FP-C In prehospital settings, clinicians make difficult decisions that need to be made quickly and be within their scope of practice and skill set. Read in: Español AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E497-502. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.497.
History of Medicine Jul 2025 What Might the Past Suggest About Rural Emergency Services Amidst Critical Access Hospitals’ Decline? Siân Lewis-Bevan, MD, MPH, EMT-B and Stephen Powell, MD Recent rural hospital closures influence clinical and ethical dimensions of emergency care. Read in: Español AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(7):E530-536. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.530.
