Annie Le, MPH, Kara Miller, MA, and Juliet McMullin, PhD
Reading illness narratives as part of cultural competency training can enhance medical students’ awareness of contexts, including structural inequities.
AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(3):304-311. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.3.msoc1-1703.
AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor James Aluri, a third-year medical student at Johns Hopkins University, interviewed Dr. Autumn Fiester, PhD, about strategies for defusing “difficult” patient-clinician relationships.
Physicians’ creative writing is a form of narrative ethics that can mitigate burnout and promote new ways of engaging with burn patients and caregivers.
AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(6):589-594. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.6.pnar1-1806.
The advent of force-feeding in the new century in the context of conflict and protest made it necessary to clarify and revise the whole concept of artificial feeding and force-feeding.