Mary Perkinson, DMA, Vaishali Phatak, PhD, and Meghan K. Ramirez
There is evidence of the benefits of music for health and wellness, but current US clinical practice does not yet commonly incorporate arts-based interventions.
AMA J Ethics. 2022; 24(7):E611-616. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.611.
Mark Gilbert, PhD, Regina Idoate, PhD, Anthony Ryan, MD, and Kenneth Rockwood, MD
In arts-based-research, knowledge and meaning emerge from human experiences of being in dynamic, ambiguous, intentional, and ethical relationships with each other and the arts.
AMA J Ethics. 2022; 24(7):E646-656. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.646.
Jing Li, PhD, Robert Tyler Braun, PhD, Sophia Kakarala, and Holly G. Prigerson, PhD
For dying patients and their loved ones to make informed decisions, physicians must share adequate information about prognoses, prospective benefits and harms of specific interventions, and costs.
AMA J Ethics. 2022; 24(11):E1040-1048. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.1040.
Cultural failure to recognize tacit knowledge explains why credential-based knowledge has higher status and prioritizes clinicians who do not care on an hour-to-hour basis for most of our country’s elders.
AMA J Ethics. 2022; 24(9):E883-889. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.883.
Two portraits of Barry, a housekeeping utility worker at the Veterans Memorial Hospital Memory Clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, are part of 80-piece arts-based research collection.
AMA J Ethics. 2022; 24(9):E895-897. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.895.
Dr Vaishali Phatak joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Mary Perkinson and Meghan K. Ramirez: “Leveraging Cross-Campus Expertise to Contribute to Dementia Care Through Music.”
Dr Art Walaszek joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs William Smith and David Elkin: “How to Draw on Narrative to Mitigate Ageism.”
This process of developing EBM-based guidelines and applying them to clinical care highlights the tension between generating unbiased knowledge based on statistical aggregation and the application of this information to individual patients.