Dr John Chenault joins Ethics Teaching and Learning to discuss how he uses critical theory to prepare health professions students to better distinguish representation from reality.
Dr Joost van Herten joins Ethics Talk to discuss how comparing different conceptions of health can help us interrogate just exactly what a One Health approach to health offers and what it doesn't.
Dr Emily Cleveland Manchanda joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Karthik Sivashanker, Steffie Kinglake, Emily Laflamme, Dr Vikas Saini, and Dr Aletha Maybank: “Training to Build Antiracist, Equitable Health Care Systems.”
Dr Kimberly A. Singletary joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Marshall H. Chin: “What Should Antiracist Payment Reform Look Like?”
A hypothetical clinical case discusses patient demand for advanced diagnostics such as MRIs when physicians do not recommend such tests. Better patient education is the suggested approach.
Physicians have a duty to learn the facts and use their medical expertise to allay patients' fears rather than order unnecessary tests when a certain disease or condition receives a great deal of media coverage.