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Case and Commentary
Apr 2025

¿Cómo deberían proteger los miembros del equipo de cirugía a los pacientes que están privados de libertad de la vigilancia o intrusión de los oficiales del centro penitenciario?

Anna Lin, MD and Mallory Williams, MD, MPH
Case and Commentary
Feb 2025

¿Cómo se debe describir y tratar el dolor causado por la colocación del DIU?

Veronica Hutchison, MD and Eve Espey, MD, MPH

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    Personal Narrative
    Jun 2019

    Health Risks of Practicing Correctional Medicine

    Dionne Hart, MD
    Correctional facilities’ physician employees are at risk for burnout, posttraumatic stress, and suicide. Prison reform should address needs of inmates and staff.
    AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(6):E540-545. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.540.
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    Case and Commentary
    Jun 2019

    How Should Organizations Respond to Racism Against Health Care Workers?

    Ann Marie Garran, PhD and Brian M. Rasmussen, PhD
    When patients express overt racism, caregivers need to feel safe and supported. The scope of organizations’ responsibilities to make that happen needs to be clearly defined.
    AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(6):E499-504. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.499.
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    Medicine and Society
    May 2019

    How Should Mechanical Circulatory Support Be Deactivated for Patients With Depression at the End of Life?

    Stephan R. Weinland, PhD, MS and James Levenson, MD
    End-stage heart failure patients can experience depression along with their chronic illness. Multidisciplinary responses are critical.
    AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(5):E429-434. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.429.
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    Case and Commentary
    May 2019

    How Should ECMO Initiation and Withdrawal Decisions Be Shared?

    Carolina Jaramillo and Nicholas Braus, MD
    Case analysis illuminates strategies clinicians can use to reconcile competing duties to patients on ECMO.
    AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(5):E387-393. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.387.
  • cscm1-1905
    Case and Commentary
    May 2019

    Should Physicians Offer a Ventricular Assist Device to a Pediatric Oncology Patient With a Poor Prognosis?

    Angira Patel, MD, MPH, Anna Joong, MD, Efrat Lelkes, MD, and Jeffrey G. Gossett, MD
    When evaluating a 10-year-old with leukemia and chemo-induced heart failure for VAD placement, a team considers what to do.
    AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(5):E380-386. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.380.
  • medu1-1905
    Medical Education
    May 2019

    Educating Resident and Fellow Physicians on the Ethics of Mechanical Circulatory Support

    Elizabeth A. Sonntag, MD, Keyur B. Shah, MD, and Jason N. Katz, MD
    Devices alter heart failure etiology, and specialists must navigate more ethical complexity than ever. How should curricula evolve to help them respond?
    AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(5):E407-415. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.407.
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    Policy Forum
    May 2019

    What Should We Learn From Early Hemodialysis Allocation About How We Should Be Using ECMO?

    Daniel Gutteridge, MD and Gabriel T. Bosslet, MD, MA
    Early hemodialysis allocation deliberations can inform deliberative democratic methods for setting criteria for and guiding policy making about ECMO.
    AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(5):E421-428. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.421.
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    AMA Code Says
    May 2019

    AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Ethics of Life-Sustaining Technologies

    Rachel F. Harbut
    How should physicians researching life-sustaining technologies consider their duties to enrolled subjects?
    AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(5):E416-420. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.416.
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    Art of Medicine
    May 2019

    Sustaining the Lives of Art Objects

    Sarah Molina
    Caring for the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection suggests the importance of cultural humility in museums and in medicine.
    AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(5):E450-454. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.450.
  • cscm4-1905
    Case and Commentary
    May 2019

    Should Long-Term Life-Sustaining Care Be Started in Emergency Settings?

    Ellen C. Meltzer, MD, MSc, Natalia S. Ivascu, MD, Mark K. Edwin, MD, and Timothy J. Ingall, MBBS, MD, PhD
    Extracorporeal Life Support Organization guidelines emphasize proportionality and benefit/risk analyses in decision making.
    AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(5):E401-406. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.401.

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