A graphic memoir documents clinical and ethical disagreements and decision points throughout a paramedic team’s time with an incarcerated patient in labor.
AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(10):E902-903. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2019.902.
Brooklyn Larimore, Mark Gilbert, PhD, and William M. Lydiatt, MD, MBA
Portraits of clinicians quickly became emblematic of what the COVID-19 pandemic has demanded of all of us, especially caregivers who witnessed deaths likely unprecedented in number during their careers.
AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(7):E667-675. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.667.
The experience of an English professor dying of ovarian cancer in Margaret Edson’s play Wit shows that both literary and medical discourse obfuscate and objectify rather than promote communication of “simple human truths” that dignify life and death.
AMA J Ethics. 2015;17(9):858-864. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.9.imhl1-1509.