Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary Oct 2022 What Would It Mean for Health Care Organizations to Justly Manage Their Waste? Genevieve S. Silva and Cassandra Thiel, PhD Restructuring health care waste management involves making existing waste audit data transparent. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(10):E934-943. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.934. Case and Commentary Oct 2022 How Should Biocontainment Balance Infection Control With Practice Sustainability? Abigail E. Lowe, MA, Aurora B. Le, PhD, MPH, CSP, CPH, and Shawn G. Gibbs, PhD, MBA, CIH Human health promotion and environmental protection are values that sometimes complement each other, but sometimes conflict in BCU management. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(10):E944-950. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.944. Case and Commentary Nov 2016 Requests for VIP Treatment in Pathology: Implications for Social Justice and Systems-Based Practice Virginia Sheffield and Lauren B. Smith, MD Preferential treatment of “very important” patients is not only unjust but also can compromise patient safety, which is overlooked in medical ethics. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(8):786-792. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.8.ecas4-1608. Case and Commentary Sep 2023 How Should Long-Term Psychotherapy Address Ethical Questions During the Palliative Care of a Patient With Serious and Persistent Mental Illness? Constance E. George, MD, MA This commentary on a case considers the course of a palliative approach to care of a patient with a serious and persistent mental illness. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(9):E661-667. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.661. Case and Commentary Sep 2023 What Makes Palliative Mental Health Care Ethical Health Care? Virginia A. Brown, PhD, MA and Ashley Trust, MD Treatment-resistant schizophrenia can create a high disease burden for some patients, making it hard to get good outcomes. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(9):E674-677. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.674. Case and Commentary Feb 2024 How Should Wet Market Practices Be Regulated to Curb Zoonotic Disease Transmission? Jake Young, PhD, MPH, MFA Consumption and trade of wild animals present major zoonotic disease transmission risks. AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(2):E116-121. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.116. Case and Commentary Dec 2023 When, If Ever, Is It Appropriate to Regard a Patient as “Too Medically Complex” for One Inpatient Service, But Not Another? David Marcus, MD, HEC-C Constraints on hospitalists and surgeons and restricted orthopedic admission criteria can exacerbate patients’ distress that comes from clinicians’ disagreements. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(12):E873-877. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.873. Case and Commentary Jul 2017 How Should Clinicians Counsel a Woman with a Strong Family History of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease about Her Pregnancy? Marianna V. Mapes, Barbara M. O'Brien, MD, and Louise P. King, MD, JD Pregnant women at high risk for heritable diseases need support and nondirective genetic counseling. AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(7):663-674. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.7.ecas4-1707. From the Editor Nov 2013 The Empowered Patient: Consumerism in American Medicine Ravi B. Parikh Today, much of the information that doctors gain during medical school and residency can be accessed by patients at the click of a mouse. Virtual Mentor. 2013;15(11):923-925. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2013.15.11.fred1-1311. Case and Commentary Apr 2024 How Should Regulators and Manufacturers Prevent Avoidable Deaths of Children From Contaminated Cough Syrup? Kavitha Nallathambi, MPH, MBA and Amy B. Cadwallader, PhD Quality control testing is ethically and clinically key to increasing transparency in excipient supply chains. AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(4):E289-294. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.289. Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Current page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Next page Next › Last page Last »
Case and Commentary Oct 2022 What Would It Mean for Health Care Organizations to Justly Manage Their Waste? Genevieve S. Silva and Cassandra Thiel, PhD Restructuring health care waste management involves making existing waste audit data transparent. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(10):E934-943. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.934.
Case and Commentary Oct 2022 How Should Biocontainment Balance Infection Control With Practice Sustainability? Abigail E. Lowe, MA, Aurora B. Le, PhD, MPH, CSP, CPH, and Shawn G. Gibbs, PhD, MBA, CIH Human health promotion and environmental protection are values that sometimes complement each other, but sometimes conflict in BCU management. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(10):E944-950. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.944.
Case and Commentary Nov 2016 Requests for VIP Treatment in Pathology: Implications for Social Justice and Systems-Based Practice Virginia Sheffield and Lauren B. Smith, MD Preferential treatment of “very important” patients is not only unjust but also can compromise patient safety, which is overlooked in medical ethics. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(8):786-792. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.8.ecas4-1608.
Case and Commentary Sep 2023 How Should Long-Term Psychotherapy Address Ethical Questions During the Palliative Care of a Patient With Serious and Persistent Mental Illness? Constance E. George, MD, MA This commentary on a case considers the course of a palliative approach to care of a patient with a serious and persistent mental illness. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(9):E661-667. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.661.
Case and Commentary Sep 2023 What Makes Palliative Mental Health Care Ethical Health Care? Virginia A. Brown, PhD, MA and Ashley Trust, MD Treatment-resistant schizophrenia can create a high disease burden for some patients, making it hard to get good outcomes. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(9):E674-677. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.674.
Case and Commentary Feb 2024 How Should Wet Market Practices Be Regulated to Curb Zoonotic Disease Transmission? Jake Young, PhD, MPH, MFA Consumption and trade of wild animals present major zoonotic disease transmission risks. AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(2):E116-121. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.116.
Case and Commentary Dec 2023 When, If Ever, Is It Appropriate to Regard a Patient as “Too Medically Complex” for One Inpatient Service, But Not Another? David Marcus, MD, HEC-C Constraints on hospitalists and surgeons and restricted orthopedic admission criteria can exacerbate patients’ distress that comes from clinicians’ disagreements. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(12):E873-877. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.873.
Case and Commentary Jul 2017 How Should Clinicians Counsel a Woman with a Strong Family History of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease about Her Pregnancy? Marianna V. Mapes, Barbara M. O'Brien, MD, and Louise P. King, MD, JD Pregnant women at high risk for heritable diseases need support and nondirective genetic counseling. AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(7):663-674. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.7.ecas4-1707.
From the Editor Nov 2013 The Empowered Patient: Consumerism in American Medicine Ravi B. Parikh Today, much of the information that doctors gain during medical school and residency can be accessed by patients at the click of a mouse. Virtual Mentor. 2013;15(11):923-925. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2013.15.11.fred1-1311.
Case and Commentary Apr 2024 How Should Regulators and Manufacturers Prevent Avoidable Deaths of Children From Contaminated Cough Syrup? Kavitha Nallathambi, MPH, MBA and Amy B. Cadwallader, PhD Quality control testing is ethically and clinically key to increasing transparency in excipient supply chains. AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(4):E289-294. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.289.