Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary Apr 2020 How Should Trainees’ Influences on Postoperative Outcomes Be Disclosed? Rhashedah Ekeoduru, MD Two pediatric cases highlight risks of prolonging anesthetic exposure for training purposes and prompt questions about influences of surgical training on outcomes. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(4):E267-275. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.267. Policy Forum Feb 2022 Why Care-Based, Not Carceral, Approaches to Suspects With Mental Illness Is Key to Whether We Trust Professional or State Authority Ever Again Frederic G. Reamer, PhD Police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and parole boards look to reform work with patients. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(2):E145-149. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.145. Viewpoint Sep 2016 The Limits of Informed Consent for an Overwhelmed Patient: Clinicians’ Role in Protecting Patients and Preventing Overwhelm Johan Bester, MBChB, MPhil, Cristie M. Cole, JD, and Eric Kodish, MD Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):869-886. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.peer2-1609. Case and Commentary Apr 2021 How Should Clinicians Execute Critical Force Interventions With Compassion, Not Just Harm Minimization, as a Clinical and Ethical Goal? Robert L. Trestman, PhD, MD and Kishore Nagaraja, MD Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(4):E292-297. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.292. Case and Commentary Aug 2021 How Should Economic Value Be Considered in Treatment Decisions for Individual Patients? Hadley Stevens Smith, PhD, MPSA Physicians’ primary responsibility is to promote patients’ well-being, which includes not causing financial harm. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(8):E607-612. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.607. Policy Forum Nov 2021 Four Ways to Limit Use of Force in Care of Persons Experiencing Homelessness Mary L. Tornabene, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC and Alyssa S. Tornabene, RN Involuntary commitment is often traumatic and can fracture already fragile relationships persons experiencing homeless have. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(11):E869-874. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.869. Original Research May 2023 Interprofessional Learning and Psychiatric Expertise in Mental Health Courts Paul Brodwin, PhD Interprofessional collaboration is crucial to reduce overincarceration of people with severe mental illness. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(5):E353-360. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.353.
Case and Commentary Apr 2020 How Should Trainees’ Influences on Postoperative Outcomes Be Disclosed? Rhashedah Ekeoduru, MD Two pediatric cases highlight risks of prolonging anesthetic exposure for training purposes and prompt questions about influences of surgical training on outcomes. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(4):E267-275. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.267.
Policy Forum Feb 2022 Why Care-Based, Not Carceral, Approaches to Suspects With Mental Illness Is Key to Whether We Trust Professional or State Authority Ever Again Frederic G. Reamer, PhD Police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and parole boards look to reform work with patients. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(2):E145-149. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.145.
Viewpoint Sep 2016 The Limits of Informed Consent for an Overwhelmed Patient: Clinicians’ Role in Protecting Patients and Preventing Overwhelm Johan Bester, MBChB, MPhil, Cristie M. Cole, JD, and Eric Kodish, MD Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):869-886. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.peer2-1609.
Case and Commentary Apr 2021 How Should Clinicians Execute Critical Force Interventions With Compassion, Not Just Harm Minimization, as a Clinical and Ethical Goal? Robert L. Trestman, PhD, MD and Kishore Nagaraja, MD Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(4):E292-297. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.292.
Case and Commentary Aug 2021 How Should Economic Value Be Considered in Treatment Decisions for Individual Patients? Hadley Stevens Smith, PhD, MPSA Physicians’ primary responsibility is to promote patients’ well-being, which includes not causing financial harm. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(8):E607-612. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.607.
Policy Forum Nov 2021 Four Ways to Limit Use of Force in Care of Persons Experiencing Homelessness Mary L. Tornabene, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC and Alyssa S. Tornabene, RN Involuntary commitment is often traumatic and can fracture already fragile relationships persons experiencing homeless have. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(11):E869-874. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.869.
Original Research May 2023 Interprofessional Learning and Psychiatric Expertise in Mental Health Courts Paul Brodwin, PhD Interprofessional collaboration is crucial to reduce overincarceration of people with severe mental illness. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(5):E353-360. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.353.