Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Medicine and Society Oct 2021 “Aren’t Surgery and Palliative Care Kind of Opposites?” Myrick C. Shinall Jr, MD, PhD Seeming incongruity between surgery and palliation reiterates patients’ needs for clinicians to be able to identify when and how they should coexist. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E823-825. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.823. Viewpoint Oct 2021 Whoever Does Image-Guided Palliative Care Needs to Be Properly Trained to Do So Jay A. Requarth, MD Some clinicians offering image-guided procedures have little training in palliative medicine, which is both a clinical and an ethical problem. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E826-831. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.826. Art of Medicine Oct 2020 Paintings From Spain's COVID-19 Pandemic Teófila Vicente-Herrero, MD Artist and physician unite in a joint vision that reflects the magnitude of the pandemic and the fight for survival. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(10):E893-897. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.893. Art of Medicine Dec 2020 A Hidden Pandemic Antonio Yaghy, MD, Lauren A. Dalvin, MD, and Carol L. Shields, MD This article features a digital photo painting of a clinician during the COVID-19 pandemic. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1067-1070. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1067. Podcast Aug 2020 Ethics Talk: The Ongoing Opioid Epidemic Dr Travis Rieder discusses his own experiences with opioids and the ethical challenges of “legacy patients,” and Dr Stephanie Zaza, president of the American College of Preventive Medicine, discusses the future of opioid research priorities. Case and Commentary Sep 2023 Does It Matter Whether a Psychiatric Intervention Is “Palliative”? Brent M. Kious, MD, PhD and Ryan H. Nelson, PhD Uncertainty about which psychiatric interventions are palliative stems from psychiatry’s prioritization of symptom management regardless of diagnosis. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(9):E655-660. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.655. Case and Commentary Sep 2023 How Should Long-Term Psychotherapy Address Ethical Questions During the Palliative Care of a Patient With Serious and Persistent Mental Illness? Constance E. George, MD, MA This commentary on a case considers the course of a palliative approach to care of a patient with a serious and persistent mental illness. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(9):E661-667. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.661. Medical Education Sep 2023 Moral Intuitions About Futility as Prompts for Evaluating Goals in Mental Health Care Anna L. Westermair, MD and Manuel Trachsel, MD, PhD Futility can function as a moral counterweight to a duty to treat, helping clinicians find balance between over- and undertreatment. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(9):E690-702. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.690. Case and Commentary Oct 2023 Should Antipsychotics’ Risks Be Accepted by Clinicians on Behalf of Patients to Achieve Benefits of Mitigating Older Adults’ Behavioral Symptoms in Short-Staffed Units? Alex Rollo, MD, Jeena Kar, DO, Uma Suryadevara, MD, and Mary Camp, MD This commentary considers how to manage agitation in patients with dementia. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(10):E725-732. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.725. AMA Code Says Feb 2024 AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Health Ecology and Disease Transmission Maya Roytman Key values outlined in the AMA Code facilitate understanding of complex relationships among humans, nonhuman animals, and our ecosystem. AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(2):E142-146. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.142. Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Current page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Next page Next › Last page Last »
Medicine and Society Oct 2021 “Aren’t Surgery and Palliative Care Kind of Opposites?” Myrick C. Shinall Jr, MD, PhD Seeming incongruity between surgery and palliation reiterates patients’ needs for clinicians to be able to identify when and how they should coexist. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E823-825. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.823.
Viewpoint Oct 2021 Whoever Does Image-Guided Palliative Care Needs to Be Properly Trained to Do So Jay A. Requarth, MD Some clinicians offering image-guided procedures have little training in palliative medicine, which is both a clinical and an ethical problem. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E826-831. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.826.
Art of Medicine Oct 2020 Paintings From Spain's COVID-19 Pandemic Teófila Vicente-Herrero, MD Artist and physician unite in a joint vision that reflects the magnitude of the pandemic and the fight for survival. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(10):E893-897. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.893.
Art of Medicine Dec 2020 A Hidden Pandemic Antonio Yaghy, MD, Lauren A. Dalvin, MD, and Carol L. Shields, MD This article features a digital photo painting of a clinician during the COVID-19 pandemic. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1067-1070. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1067.
Podcast Aug 2020 Ethics Talk: The Ongoing Opioid Epidemic Dr Travis Rieder discusses his own experiences with opioids and the ethical challenges of “legacy patients,” and Dr Stephanie Zaza, president of the American College of Preventive Medicine, discusses the future of opioid research priorities.
Case and Commentary Sep 2023 Does It Matter Whether a Psychiatric Intervention Is “Palliative”? Brent M. Kious, MD, PhD and Ryan H. Nelson, PhD Uncertainty about which psychiatric interventions are palliative stems from psychiatry’s prioritization of symptom management regardless of diagnosis. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(9):E655-660. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.655.
Case and Commentary Sep 2023 How Should Long-Term Psychotherapy Address Ethical Questions During the Palliative Care of a Patient With Serious and Persistent Mental Illness? Constance E. George, MD, MA This commentary on a case considers the course of a palliative approach to care of a patient with a serious and persistent mental illness. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(9):E661-667. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.661.
Medical Education Sep 2023 Moral Intuitions About Futility as Prompts for Evaluating Goals in Mental Health Care Anna L. Westermair, MD and Manuel Trachsel, MD, PhD Futility can function as a moral counterweight to a duty to treat, helping clinicians find balance between over- and undertreatment. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(9):E690-702. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.690.
Case and Commentary Oct 2023 Should Antipsychotics’ Risks Be Accepted by Clinicians on Behalf of Patients to Achieve Benefits of Mitigating Older Adults’ Behavioral Symptoms in Short-Staffed Units? Alex Rollo, MD, Jeena Kar, DO, Uma Suryadevara, MD, and Mary Camp, MD This commentary considers how to manage agitation in patients with dementia. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(10):E725-732. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.725.
AMA Code Says Feb 2024 AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Health Ecology and Disease Transmission Maya Roytman Key values outlined in the AMA Code facilitate understanding of complex relationships among humans, nonhuman animals, and our ecosystem. AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(2):E142-146. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.142.