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Ethics Talk: Public, Civic and Spiritual Health During COVID

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In this video and podcast edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Patrick Smith about intersections of public health, civic good and spiritual well-being during this COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Patrick Smith, PhD, MA, MDiv is associate research professor of theological ethics and bioethics at the Duke Divinity School, senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, and core faculty with the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. 

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Recorded on April 23, 2021

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Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.

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Ethics Talk: Advance Care Planning and End-of-life Care in the COVID Era

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Audiey Kao, MD, PhD, talks with Helen Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN, about challenges and opportunities to illicit and honor patients’ health care preferences during this pandemic.

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Helen Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN is a professor of nursing, ethics and interdisciplinary studies at Creighton University.  

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Medicine and Society
Dec 2020

Bringing Dying Out of the Hospital’s Closet

Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN, MA
A patient’s transition from “living” to “dying” is not socially marked in the same way death is marked, and this is both clinically and ethically relevant.
AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1062-1066. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1062.
Case and Commentary
Oct 2021

Who Should Decide When Palliative Surgery Is Justifiable?

Joshua T. Cohen, MD and Thomas J. Miner, MD
No single person should make decisions about for whom or according to which criteria palliative surgery is clinically and ethically appropriate.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E761-765. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.761.
Case and Commentary
Oct 2021

When Should Neuroendovascular Care for Patients With Acute Stroke Be Palliative?

Michael J. Young, MD, MPhil, Robert W. Regenhardt, MD, PhD, Leonard L. Sokol, MD, and Thabele M. Leslie-Mazwi, MD
For some patients whose survival is extended by disease-modifying interventions, little guidance about clinical and ethical complexities exist.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E783-793. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.783.
Medical Education
Oct 2021

Teaching Palliative Care in Surgical Education

Jessica H. Ballou, MD, MPH and Karen J. Brasel, MD, MPH
Calls to expand palliative care education have been explicit since the 1990s, but palliative care training in surgery remains too narrowly focused on end of life.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E800-805. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.800.