Dr Rajani Katta joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dina H. Zamil, Emily K. Burns, and Dr Ariadna Perez-Sanchez: “Do You Know How to Assess Risks Posed by Over-the-Counter Vitamin A Supplements?”
Education debt is driving medical school graduates away from underserved communities and primary care, both of which our country will sorely need in the coming years.
The practice of banking sperm from adolescents about to undergo chemotherapy is not universal, which lends support to the argument that parental consent be required for the intervention.
Physicians have an ethical responsibility to be functionally literate in health statistics and able to explain information such as a test’s positive predictive value to their patients.
Clinical and psychosocial considerations influence how oncologists approach discussing sperm banking with adolescent patients who are about to undergo chemotherapy and with the parents of those patients.
Stanford University Medical School established a positive partnership with a pharmaceutical company to offer an industry-sponsored resident elective course in a way that minimizes conflict of interest and has been accepted by the ACGME.
A physician argues that pharmaceutical industry support for residency programs creates a conflict of interest and compromises the educational integrity of the programs.