Efrat Lelkes, MD, Angira Patel, MD, MPH, Anna Joong, MD, and Jeffrey G. Gossett, MD
Current policy requires separate informed consent for some Public Health Service increased-risk donors, and this can make shared decision making harder.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(5):E401-407. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.401.
Maxwell F. Lydiatt and William M. Lydiatt, MD, MBA
Portraiture facilitates learners’ explorations of their own and others’ biases, limitations, and approaches to gathering information from and about a source.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(6):E499-504. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.499.
Curatorial and ethical questions are numerous in an exhibition that includes visceral psychological portraits and explanatory text not typically considered by museums and galleries.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(6):E525-534. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.525.
Multiple pieces of reclaimed pallet wood are sculpted into a lateral cerebrum and a gradient of burned wood visually represents a crisis among health care professionals.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(1):E61-62. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.61.
Being close enough to patients to care is as critical as remaining distant enough from a pathogen to be safe. This strategy simultaneously frustrates and supports public trust.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(1):E22-27. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.22.