Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary Dec 2020 What Should We Do When Families Refuse Testing for Brain Death? Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, Wynne Morrison, MD, MBE, and Matthew Kirschen, MD, PhD Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E986-994. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.986. Case and Commentary Dec 2020 Should a Patient Who Is Pregnant and Brain Dead Receive Life Support, Despite Objection From Her Appointed Surrogate? Daniel Sperling, SJD Lack of ethical, legal, and clinical consensus about best practice sometimes combines with a poor clinical evidence base. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1004-1009. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1004. Medical Education Dec 2020 How Educators Can Help Prevent False Brain Death Diagnoses Farah Fourcand, MD and Diana M. Barratt, MD, MPH For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1010-1018. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1010. Case and Commentary Jan 2021 How Should History of Physician Involvement in the Holocaust Inform How Physicians Approach Employers? Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD and Amy Blair, MD When responding to an ad for a job caring for patient-detainees along the US southern border, applicants should anticipate the need to navigate dual loyalties. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E12-17. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.12. Case and Commentary Jan 2021 How Should a Physician Respond to Discovering Her Patient Has Been Forcibly Sterilized? Rebecca Kluchin, PhD Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E18-25. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.18. Medical Education Jan 2021 Teaching Health Professions Students About the Holocaust William S. Silvers, MD, Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH, Mark A. Levine, MD, and Meleah Himber, MEd One health professions school views the Holocaust as fundamental content knowledge in modern health care ethics, but teaching it is difficult. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E26-30. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.26. Medical Education Jan 2021 How Should Students Learn About Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals’ Roles in the Holocaust? Robert Baker, PhD The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E31-37. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.31. State of the Art and Science Jan 2021 How Should We Regard Information Gathered in Nazi Experiments? Arthur L. Caplan, PhD Immorally acquired information, from Nazi experimentation or other sources, infects the body of scientific and biomedical knowledge. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E55-58. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.55. Medicine and Society Jan 2021 Teaching Hard Truths About Medicine and the Holocaust Tessa Chelouche, MD The Holocaust differs from other instances of mass murder in that it was medically sanctioned genocide. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E59-63. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.59. Viewpoint Jan 2021 A Call to Commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, in All Health Science Schools Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH and William S. Silvers, MD Health professions educators can express respect for the Holocaust’s legacies in health care in many ways. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E75-77. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.75. Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Case and Commentary Dec 2020 What Should We Do When Families Refuse Testing for Brain Death? Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, Wynne Morrison, MD, MBE, and Matthew Kirschen, MD, PhD Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E986-994. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.986.
Case and Commentary Dec 2020 Should a Patient Who Is Pregnant and Brain Dead Receive Life Support, Despite Objection From Her Appointed Surrogate? Daniel Sperling, SJD Lack of ethical, legal, and clinical consensus about best practice sometimes combines with a poor clinical evidence base. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1004-1009. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1004.
Medical Education Dec 2020 How Educators Can Help Prevent False Brain Death Diagnoses Farah Fourcand, MD and Diana M. Barratt, MD, MPH For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1010-1018. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1010.
Case and Commentary Jan 2021 How Should History of Physician Involvement in the Holocaust Inform How Physicians Approach Employers? Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD and Amy Blair, MD When responding to an ad for a job caring for patient-detainees along the US southern border, applicants should anticipate the need to navigate dual loyalties. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E12-17. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.12.
Case and Commentary Jan 2021 How Should a Physician Respond to Discovering Her Patient Has Been Forcibly Sterilized? Rebecca Kluchin, PhD Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E18-25. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.18.
Medical Education Jan 2021 Teaching Health Professions Students About the Holocaust William S. Silvers, MD, Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH, Mark A. Levine, MD, and Meleah Himber, MEd One health professions school views the Holocaust as fundamental content knowledge in modern health care ethics, but teaching it is difficult. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E26-30. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.26.
Medical Education Jan 2021 How Should Students Learn About Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals’ Roles in the Holocaust? Robert Baker, PhD The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E31-37. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.31.
State of the Art and Science Jan 2021 How Should We Regard Information Gathered in Nazi Experiments? Arthur L. Caplan, PhD Immorally acquired information, from Nazi experimentation or other sources, infects the body of scientific and biomedical knowledge. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E55-58. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.55.
Medicine and Society Jan 2021 Teaching Hard Truths About Medicine and the Holocaust Tessa Chelouche, MD The Holocaust differs from other instances of mass murder in that it was medically sanctioned genocide. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E59-63. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.59.
Viewpoint Jan 2021 A Call to Commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, in All Health Science Schools Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH and William S. Silvers, MD Health professions educators can express respect for the Holocaust’s legacies in health care in many ways. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E75-77. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.75.