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Continuing Education (CME/CEU Credit)

Viewpoint
Sep 2016

The Limits of Informed Consent for an Overwhelmed Patient: Clinicians’ Role in Protecting Patients and Preventing Overwhelm
Johan Bester, MBChB, MPhil, Cristie M. Cole, JD, and Eric Kodish, MD
Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity.
AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):869-886. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.peer2-1609.
Medicine and Society
Aug 2015

Medicine’s Valuing of “Normal” Cognitive Ability
Julie M.G. Rogers, PhD, C. Christopher Hook, MD, and Rachel D. Havyer, MD
The medical profession’s valuing of intellectual ability may inadvertently harm people with intellectual or cognitive disabilities who have a different notion of “the good life.”
AMA J Ethics. 2015;17(8):717-726. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.8.peer1-1508.