Frances Grimstad, MD, MS and Elizabeth Boskey, PhD, MPH, MSSW, LICSW
Gender-affirming surgery for teens is growing as a field. Norms about who should be involved, to what extent, and for which health decisions are still evolving.
AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(5):E452-457. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.452.
Ashok, a Nepali man with neurofibromatosis, has undergone 3 surgeries to remove facially disfiguring tumors. His portrait is one of over 200 exhibited by this artist-researcher and mother.
AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(6):E513-524. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.513.
Jing Li, PhD, Robert Tyler Braun, PhD, Sophia Kakarala, and Holly G. Prigerson, PhD
For dying patients and their loved ones to make informed decisions, physicians must share adequate information about prognoses, prospective benefits and harms of specific interventions, and costs.
AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(11):E1040-1048. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.1040.
Fragmentation in US health care delivery streams and shortcomings in formal quality measures mean that transparency could be more useful to policymakers and regulators than patients.
AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(11):E1075-1082. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.1075.