Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary May 2022 How Should Clinicians Respond to Patient Interest in Dietary Supplements to Treat Serious Chronic Illness? Valerie Clinard, PharmD, APh and Jennifer D. Smith, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM, CDCES Consumption of over-the-counter vitamins, minerals, and herbals is widespread, but clinicians lack critical information about their use. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(5):E361-367. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.361. Medicine and Society Aug 2022 How Biased and Carceral Responses to Persons With Mental Illness in Acute Medical Care Settings Constitute Iatrogenic Harms Carmen Black, MD and Amanda Calhoun, MD, MPH Neglected examples of iatrogenic harm involve persons with severe mental illness who seek inpatient care. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(8):E781-787. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.781. Viewpoint Jan 2022 How Medical-Dental EHR Integration Can Improve Diabetes Care Neel Shimpi, BDS, MM, PhD, Elizabeth Buchanan, PhD, and Amit Acharya, BDS, MS, PhD Poor oral health has been neglected as a public health threat, despite recognition as “epidemic” in scale by the US Office of the Surgeon General. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(1):E99-105. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.99. Case and Commentary Dec 2020 How Should Clinicians Respond When Patients’ Loved Ones Do Not See “Brain Death” as Death? Rabbi Jason Weiner, DBioethics and Rabbi Charles Sheer, MA, BCC Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E995-1003. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.995. Medicine and Society Feb 2021 Should Clinical Guidelines Incorporate Cost Pathways for Persons With Financial Hardship? David Goldberg, MD Standard treatment of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes includes a pathway when “cost is a major issue.” Whether it’s just to do so remains unclear. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(2):E175-182. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.175. 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 Oct 2023 Should Antipsychotics’ Risks Be Accepted by Clinicians on Behalf of Patients to Achieve Benefits of Mitigating Older Adults’ Behavioral Symptoms in Short-Staffed Units? Alex Rollo, MD, Jeena Kar, DO, Uma Suryadevara, MD, and Mary Camp, MD This commentary considers how to manage agitation in patients with dementia. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(10):E725-732. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.725. Medicine and Society Oct 2023 Prioritizing Diversion and Decarceration of People With Dementia Lay Kodama, MD, PhD, Brie Williams, MD, MS, and Nathaniel P. Morris, MD An aging prison population means more people who are incarcerated will experience dementia and related symptoms. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(10):E783-790. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.783. Medicine and Society Jan 2018 Three Perspectives on Mental Health Told through StoryCorps’ “Liza Long and ‘Michael’” Jessica C. Tomazic, Joy O. Ogunmuyiwa, and Gretchen A. Ferber, MFA “Liza Long and ‘Michael’” demonstrates that new media can be used to shift social perceptions of those with mental illness from violent to vulnerable. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(1):19-24. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.1.peer3-1801.
Case and Commentary May 2022 How Should Clinicians Respond to Patient Interest in Dietary Supplements to Treat Serious Chronic Illness? Valerie Clinard, PharmD, APh and Jennifer D. Smith, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM, CDCES Consumption of over-the-counter vitamins, minerals, and herbals is widespread, but clinicians lack critical information about their use. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(5):E361-367. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.361.
Medicine and Society Aug 2022 How Biased and Carceral Responses to Persons With Mental Illness in Acute Medical Care Settings Constitute Iatrogenic Harms Carmen Black, MD and Amanda Calhoun, MD, MPH Neglected examples of iatrogenic harm involve persons with severe mental illness who seek inpatient care. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(8):E781-787. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.781.
Viewpoint Jan 2022 How Medical-Dental EHR Integration Can Improve Diabetes Care Neel Shimpi, BDS, MM, PhD, Elizabeth Buchanan, PhD, and Amit Acharya, BDS, MS, PhD Poor oral health has been neglected as a public health threat, despite recognition as “epidemic” in scale by the US Office of the Surgeon General. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(1):E99-105. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.99.
Case and Commentary Dec 2020 How Should Clinicians Respond When Patients’ Loved Ones Do Not See “Brain Death” as Death? Rabbi Jason Weiner, DBioethics and Rabbi Charles Sheer, MA, BCC Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E995-1003. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.995.
Medicine and Society Feb 2021 Should Clinical Guidelines Incorporate Cost Pathways for Persons With Financial Hardship? David Goldberg, MD Standard treatment of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes includes a pathway when “cost is a major issue.” Whether it’s just to do so remains unclear. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(2):E175-182. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.175.
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 Oct 2023 Should Antipsychotics’ Risks Be Accepted by Clinicians on Behalf of Patients to Achieve Benefits of Mitigating Older Adults’ Behavioral Symptoms in Short-Staffed Units? Alex Rollo, MD, Jeena Kar, DO, Uma Suryadevara, MD, and Mary Camp, MD This commentary considers how to manage agitation in patients with dementia. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(10):E725-732. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.725.
Medicine and Society Oct 2023 Prioritizing Diversion and Decarceration of People With Dementia Lay Kodama, MD, PhD, Brie Williams, MD, MS, and Nathaniel P. Morris, MD An aging prison population means more people who are incarcerated will experience dementia and related symptoms. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(10):E783-790. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.783.
Medicine and Society Jan 2018 Three Perspectives on Mental Health Told through StoryCorps’ “Liza Long and ‘Michael’” Jessica C. Tomazic, Joy O. Ogunmuyiwa, and Gretchen A. Ferber, MFA “Liza Long and ‘Michael’” demonstrates that new media can be used to shift social perceptions of those with mental illness from violent to vulnerable. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(1):19-24. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.1.peer3-1801.