Lloyd Duplechan joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr David Sine: “Roles of Environmental Services Workers’ Wages and Status in Patient Safety.”
Historical perspective on how some sites and means of professional caregiving became high or low status helps us understand trends in poor care continuity in US health care.
AMA J Ethics. 2022; 24(9):E822-829. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.822.
This article considers 1990s and 2000s-era civil rights complaints in NYC and offers legal strategies for scaling health outcomes improvement nationwide.
AMA J Ethics. 2023; 25(1):E48-54. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.48.
Natural language processing can be used not only to extract quantifiable facts from individual medical records but also to study variation in a data set.
AMA J Ethics. 2017; 19(3):281-288. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.3.stas1-1703.
Surgeons can have an impact on patients and communities that goes well beyond the operating room. This month on Ethics Talk, we discuss how the concept of "surgical justice" can help plastic surgeons deliver better care topatients and communities.
William M. Kuzon, Jr., MD, PhD, Emily Sluiter, and Katherine M. Gast, MD, MS
Plastic surgeons’ use of patient images on social media should conform to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons’ advertising and image use guidelines.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(4):403-413. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.4.sect1-1804.