Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary Dec 2020 How Should Clinicians Respond When Patients’ Loved Ones Do Not See “Brain Death” as Death? Rabbi Jason Weiner, DBioethics and Rabbi Charles Sheer, MA, BCC Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E995-1003. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.995. Case and Commentary Dec 2020 Should a Patient Who Is Pregnant and Brain Dead Receive Life Support, Despite Objection From Her Appointed Surrogate? Daniel Sperling, SJD Lack of ethical, legal, and clinical consensus about best practice sometimes combines with a poor clinical evidence base. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1004-1009. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1004. Case and Commentary Jul 2019 Should Dialysis Be Stopped for an Unrepresented Patient With Metastatic Cancer? Adira Hulkower, JD, MS, Sarah Garijo-Garde, and Lauren S. Flicker, JD, MBE Legal inconsistencies and variation in end-of-life options generate disparities in care for unrepresented patients. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(7):E575-581. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.575. Case and Commentary Sep 2006 Communication Failure in the ICU Diane E. Meier, MD Virtual Mentor. 2006;8(9):564-570. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2006.8.9.ccas2-0609. Medicine and Society Mar 2009 New Forces Shaping the Patient-Physician Relationship Howard A. Brody, MD, PhD Society values both the appropriate use of new technological and management innovations and the maintenance of a strong personal and therapeutic relationship between patients and physicians. The medical-home model may be able to accomplish both. Virtual Mentor. 2009;11(3):253-256. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2009.11.3.msoc1-0903. Case and Commentary Jun 2017 What Should Physicians Do When They Disagree, Clinically and Ethically, with a Surrogate’s Wishes? Terri Traudt, MA, MBC and Joan Liaschenko, PhD, RN Moral distress can be reduced by approaching the patient-physician relationship with empathy and humility, which foster trust and good communication. AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(6):558-563. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.6.ecas4-1706.
Case and Commentary Dec 2020 How Should Clinicians Respond When Patients’ Loved Ones Do Not See “Brain Death” as Death? Rabbi Jason Weiner, DBioethics and Rabbi Charles Sheer, MA, BCC Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E995-1003. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.995.
Case and Commentary Dec 2020 Should a Patient Who Is Pregnant and Brain Dead Receive Life Support, Despite Objection From Her Appointed Surrogate? Daniel Sperling, SJD Lack of ethical, legal, and clinical consensus about best practice sometimes combines with a poor clinical evidence base. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1004-1009. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1004.
Case and Commentary Jul 2019 Should Dialysis Be Stopped for an Unrepresented Patient With Metastatic Cancer? Adira Hulkower, JD, MS, Sarah Garijo-Garde, and Lauren S. Flicker, JD, MBE Legal inconsistencies and variation in end-of-life options generate disparities in care for unrepresented patients. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(7):E575-581. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.575.
Case and Commentary Sep 2006 Communication Failure in the ICU Diane E. Meier, MD Virtual Mentor. 2006;8(9):564-570. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2006.8.9.ccas2-0609.
Medicine and Society Mar 2009 New Forces Shaping the Patient-Physician Relationship Howard A. Brody, MD, PhD Society values both the appropriate use of new technological and management innovations and the maintenance of a strong personal and therapeutic relationship between patients and physicians. The medical-home model may be able to accomplish both. Virtual Mentor. 2009;11(3):253-256. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2009.11.3.msoc1-0903.
Case and Commentary Jun 2017 What Should Physicians Do When They Disagree, Clinically and Ethically, with a Surrogate’s Wishes? Terri Traudt, MA, MBC and Joan Liaschenko, PhD, RN Moral distress can be reduced by approaching the patient-physician relationship with empathy and humility, which foster trust and good communication. AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(6):558-563. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.6.ecas4-1706.