AMA Journal of Ethics

When symptoms of polypharmacy are consistent with those of difficult-to-diagnose disorders, reliable determinations about which drugs are necessary is critical.

When errors happen, too often clinicians are at odds with each other about how to respond to a patient or a patient’s loved ones after that patient suffers harm.

Which factors should be part of standard required reconsideration discussions?

Clinicians have duties to express regard for the breadth and depth of their influence on patients’ pre- and postsurgical self-understandings.

Anesthesiologists regularly take breaks during operations, but surgeons do so rarely. Current literature describes the influence of breaks on attention, focus, and stamina.

Using alternative anesthesia techniques requires collaborative decision making that expresses a patient’s best interest.

Surgeon Dr Sara Scarlet and anesthesiologist Dr Patricia Doerr discuss their perspectives on surgeon-anesthesiologist relationships.

There’s similarity between processes used by an artist to see the entirety of a scene and those used by a clinician to assess a patient.