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Case and Commentary
Feb 2021

Fomento de la equidad en salud a través de un enfoque que evite los juicios de valor y contextualice la atención

Saul J. Weiner, MD

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  • cscm3-2307
    Case and Commentary
    Jul 2023

    Should BMI Help Determine Gender-Affirming Surgery Candidacy?

    Elijah Castle, Laura Kimberly, PhD, MSW, MBE, Gaines Blasdel, Augustus Parker, Rachel Bluebond-Langner, MD, and Lee C. Zhao, MD, MS

    Use of body mass index as a health care metric is controversial, especially in candidacy assessments for gender-affirming surgery.  

    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(7):E496-506. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.496.
  • cscm1-2307
    Case and Commentary
    Jul 2023

    Why We Need to Stop Labeling Behaviors Influencing a Person’s Weight Ideal or Healthy

    Madeline Ward, PhD

    Healthist views about body shape and weight are oppressive and lead to pernicious harms, especially to members of vulnerable groups. 

    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(7):E472-477. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.472.
  • cscm2-2306
    Case and Commentary
    Jun 2023

    How Should Surgeons Approach Gender-Affirming Surgery Revisions When Patients Were Not, Perhaps, Well Informed in Prior Counseling?

    Lee C. Zhao, MD, ​​​​​​​Gaines Blasdel, Augustus Parker, and Rachel Bluebond-Langner, MD

    Tension between realistic goals and unrealistic views about how to achieve them is compounded when patients are eager to revise a prior surgeon’s gender-affirming procedure.

    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(6):E391-397. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.391.
  • cscm1-2306
    Case and Commentary
    Jun 2023

    How Should a Transgender Patient’s History of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Smoking Influence Gender-Affirming Health Decision Sharing?

    Rebkah Tesfamariam and Joshua D. Safer, MD

    This commentary on a case considers a transgender patient’s mental health and risk for DVT in ethical decision making about feminizing gender-affirming hormone therapy.

    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(6):E386-390. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.386.
  • cscm2-2304
    Case and Commentary
    Apr 2023

    How Should Clinicians Respond to Patients Experiencing Ongoing Present Traumatic Stress of Industrial Meat Production?

    Rachel MacNair, PhD
    Perpetration-induced traumatic stress should be understood as present, not just posttraumatic, stress disorder because retraumatization is part of slaughterhouse workers’ jobs.
    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(4):E251-255. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.251.
  • cscm3-2304
    Case and Commentary
    Apr 2023

    How Should Food Offered by Health Care Organizations Meet Individual, Community, and Ecological Needs?

    Jennifer L. Weinberg, MD, MPH, MBE
    Sustainable food services are key dimensions of health care organizations’ civic and stewardship responsibilities to individuals and communities.
    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(4):E256-263. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.256.
  • cscm1-2304
    Case and Commentary
    Apr 2023

    Which Concerns Deserve Consideration in Dietary Counseling of Patients Earning Low Incomes?

    Laura Williamson, PhD and Lee Merchen, MD
    When physicians fail to model behaviors they advocate for others, trust is eroded. 
    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(4):E244-250. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.244.
  • cscm3-2303
    Case and Commentary
    Mar 2023

    How Should the US Federal Government Oversee Clinicians’ Relationships With Industry?

    Sunita Sah, MD, PhD, MBA
    Conflicts of interest must be acknowledged with sincerity and earnestness and managed such that the conflict is eliminated or, at least, credibly mitigated.
    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(3):E186-193. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.186.
  • cscm1-2303
    Case and Commentary
    Mar 2023

    How Should Clinicians and Researchers in Government Respond to Threats to Their Offices?

    Daphne Mlachila, MD, MPH
    During the COVID-19 pandemic, clinician policy makers have faced unprecedented challenges to their roles in governance.
    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(3):E172-178. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.172.
  • cscm2-2303
    Case and Commentary
    Mar 2023

    What Should Be Roles of Federal Clinician Governors in Motivating Equity in Locally Coordinated Triage Protocols?

    Isabelle M. Mikell, Courtney L. Savage Hoggard, MBE, and Harald Schmidt, PhD, MA
    This commentary considers how clinician-governors should respond to how Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scores are applied.
    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(3):E179-185. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.179.

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