Dr Carmen Black joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Andrea Shamaskin-Garroway, Dr E. Mimi Arquilla, Elizabeth Roessler, and Dr Kirsten M. Wilkins: “Undoing Institutional and Racial Trauma Through Interprofessional, Trauma-Informed Education.”
People with mental illness or a degenerative mental disease have special protections under the law when entering into contracts or other binding documents.
There are nonpharmacological approaches to managing behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia and the difficulties associated with evaluating and implementing these approaches.
Unclear regulations and informal data gathering on immigrants who receive or donate organs can cause mistrust and suspicion of the organ allocation system and affect donation rates.
Immigrant patients are often bewildered when they need to seek health care in the U.S., and that care usually comes from physicians who are unsympathetic to their plight.