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Ethics Talk: Advance Care Planning and End-of-life Care in the COVID Era

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Audiey Kao, MD, PhD, talks with Helen Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN, about challenges and opportunities to illicit and honor patients’ health care preferences during this pandemic.

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Helen Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN is a professor of nursing, ethics and interdisciplinary studies at Creighton University.  

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Internal Medicine Infectious Disease Hospitalist Medicine Patient Care

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Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.

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Ethics Talk: Immunity Status, Social Privilege, and the Novel Coronavirus

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Audiey Kao, MD, PhD, talks with Kathryn Olivarius, PhD, about how yellow fever epidemics during the antebellum South provide a historical lens to examine power asymmetries and health inequities in the COVID-19 era.

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Kathryn Olivarius, PhD is an assistant professor of history at Stanford University.

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Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Patient Care Professionalism

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Medical Education
Jul 2016

Medical Education and Global Health Equity

Peter Drobac, MD, MPH and Michelle Morse, MD, MPH
The University of Global Health Equity aims to provide the tools and technology to develop the skills students need to improve fragile health systems.
AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(7):702-709. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.7.medu1-1607.
Health Law
Dec 2016

The Legal Implications of Detecting Alzheimer’s Disease Earlier

Joshua Preston, Jaleh McTeigue, Caitlin Opperman, Jordan Dean Scott Krieg, Mikaela Brandt-Fontaine, Alina Yasis, and Francis X. Shen, JD, PhD
What are insurance, contract, and criminal law implications of detecting Alzheimer’s disease early?
AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(12):1207-1217. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.12.hlaw1-1612.
Personal Narrative
Aug 2021

Set Down the Stethoscope

Michael Westerhaus, MD, MA
A deep spirit of resilience and a desire for innovation, discovery, and justice compel health workers to retain their commitment to serving patients and communities.
AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(8):E662-665. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.662.
Medical Education
Feb 2015

Communication Skills Training in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas W. LeBlanc, MD, MA
Patient-centered communication skills should be taught, practiced in simulation, and evaluated, just as technical skills are.
AMA J Ethics. 2015; 17(2):138-141. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2015.17.2.medu2-1502.
Medicine and Society
Feb 2014

Place: The Seventh Vital Sign

Bill Davenhall, MA
A digital record of place history and environmental context can provide a piece of clinically relevant information to help physicians understand what toxins patients may have been exposed to.
Virtual Mentor. 2014; 16(2):135-137. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.2.msoc1-1402.
Medicine and Society
Apr 2012

The Fallacy and Dangers of Dichotomizing Cultural Differences: The Truth about Medical Truth Telling in China

Jing-Bao Nie, BMed, MMed, MA, PhD
Instead of succumbing to the urge to portray cultural differences as a dichotomy between clashing opposites, we should endeavor to note our common humanity, acknowledge the plurality of viewpoints within a given culture, and appreciate that cultures can evolve without being untrue to themselves.
Virtual Mentor. 2012; 14(4):338-343. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.4.msoc1-1204.
State of the Art and Science
May 2011

Diagnosing Rheumatoid Arthritis

Bogdan Cherascu, MD, MS
A primer on diagnosing rheumatoid arthritis through patient history, a physical examination, and laboratory tests.
Virtual Mentor. 2011; 13(5):295-298. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2011.13.5.cprl1-1105.