Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Medicine and Society Dec 2020 Bringing Dying Out of the Hospital’s Closet Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN, MA A patient’s transition from “living” to “dying” is not socially marked in the same way death is marked, and this is both clinically and ethically relevant. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1062-1066. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1062. Medicine and Society Oct 2021 “Aren’t Surgery and Palliative Care Kind of Opposites?” Myrick C. Shinall Jr, MD, PhD Seeming incongruity between surgery and palliation reiterates patients’ needs for clinicians to be able to identify when and how they should coexist. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E823-825. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.823. Medicine and Society Mar 2020 How Should We Judge Whether and When Mission Statements Are Ethically Deployed? Kellie E. Schueler and Debra B. Stulberg, MD Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E239-247. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.239. Medicine and Society Apr 2023 Should Clinicians Care About How Food Behaviors Express Gender Identity? Whitney Riley Linsenmeyer, PhD, RD, LD Nutrition care processes account for a person’s biological sex characteristics but do not adequately address their gender. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(4):E287-293. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.287. Medicine and Society Jun 2023 How Should Clinicians Navigate Decision Making About Genital Reconstructive Surgeries Among Intersex and Transgender Populations? Frances Grimstad, MD, MS, Jessica Kremen, MD, Elizabeth R. Boskey, PhD, MPH, LICSW, and Hannah Wenger, MD Despite common outcomes of GRS, decision making about surgical care differs among patients across the lifespan. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(6):E437-445. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.437. Medicine and Society Jun 2024 How Should Focus Be Shifted From Individual Preference to Collective Wisdom for Patients at the End of Life With Antimicrobial-Resistant Infections? Jeannie P. Cimiotti, PhD, RN, Kimberly Adams Tufts, ND, WHNP-BC, Lucia D. Wocial, PhD, RN, HEC-C, and Elizabeth Peter, PhD, RN Some patients’ end-of-life care plans still require good antimicrobial management. AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(6):E486-493. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.486. Medicine and Society Sep 2005 Advertising for Organs Aviva Goldberg, MD A physician argues against the practice of advertising private pleas for organ donation rather than individuals using the UNOS donor list system. Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(9):619-624. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.9.msoc2-0509.
Medicine and Society Dec 2020 Bringing Dying Out of the Hospital’s Closet Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN, MA A patient’s transition from “living” to “dying” is not socially marked in the same way death is marked, and this is both clinically and ethically relevant. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1062-1066. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1062.
Medicine and Society Oct 2021 “Aren’t Surgery and Palliative Care Kind of Opposites?” Myrick C. Shinall Jr, MD, PhD Seeming incongruity between surgery and palliation reiterates patients’ needs for clinicians to be able to identify when and how they should coexist. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E823-825. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.823.
Medicine and Society Mar 2020 How Should We Judge Whether and When Mission Statements Are Ethically Deployed? Kellie E. Schueler and Debra B. Stulberg, MD Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E239-247. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.239.
Medicine and Society Apr 2023 Should Clinicians Care About How Food Behaviors Express Gender Identity? Whitney Riley Linsenmeyer, PhD, RD, LD Nutrition care processes account for a person’s biological sex characteristics but do not adequately address their gender. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(4):E287-293. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.287.
Medicine and Society Jun 2023 How Should Clinicians Navigate Decision Making About Genital Reconstructive Surgeries Among Intersex and Transgender Populations? Frances Grimstad, MD, MS, Jessica Kremen, MD, Elizabeth R. Boskey, PhD, MPH, LICSW, and Hannah Wenger, MD Despite common outcomes of GRS, decision making about surgical care differs among patients across the lifespan. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(6):E437-445. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.437.
Medicine and Society Jun 2024 How Should Focus Be Shifted From Individual Preference to Collective Wisdom for Patients at the End of Life With Antimicrobial-Resistant Infections? Jeannie P. Cimiotti, PhD, RN, Kimberly Adams Tufts, ND, WHNP-BC, Lucia D. Wocial, PhD, RN, HEC-C, and Elizabeth Peter, PhD, RN Some patients’ end-of-life care plans still require good antimicrobial management. AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(6):E486-493. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.486.
Medicine and Society Sep 2005 Advertising for Organs Aviva Goldberg, MD A physician argues against the practice of advertising private pleas for organ donation rather than individuals using the UNOS donor list system. Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(9):619-624. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.9.msoc2-0509.