Dr Stephen P. Richmond joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Vanessa Grubbs: “How Abolition of Race-Based Medicine Is Necessary to American Health Justice.”
Having implied that a particular clinical decision had been made to “free up a hospital bed,” the attending physician walked away without further comments to the residents or talking with the patient.
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.
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.