Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Medicine and Society Oct 2021 Where’s the Value in Preoperative Covenants Between Surgeons and Patients? Robert Ledbetter and Buddy Marterre, MD, MDiv Clinician-family communication in surgical intensive care units should focus on reducing value incongruence and nonbeneficial operations. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E814-822. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.814. 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. Medicine and Society Oct 2019 How Should Decision Aids Be Used During Counseling to Help Patients Who Are “Genetically at Risk”? Natalie Evans, PhD, Suzanne Metselaar, PhD, Carla van El, PhD, Nina Hallowell, DPhil, MA, and Guy Widdershoven, PhD Prognostic uncertainty about risk creates demand for ongoing communication and facilitated reflection about goals and values. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(10):E865-872. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.865. Case and Commentary Dec 2019 Using the 4-S Framework to Guide Conversations With Patients About CRISPR Lisa S. Lehmann, MD, PhD, MSc Empathic communication skills help motivate understanding of safety, significance of harms, impact on succeeding generations, and social consequences. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(12):E1029-1035. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.1029. Case and Commentary Apr 2016 Prenatal Risk Assessment and Diagnosis of Down Syndrome: Strategies for Communicating Well with Patients Eva Schwartz, MD and Kishore Vellody, MD Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):359-364. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.ecas1-1604. Case and Commentary May 2020 How Should Adolescent Health Decision-Making Authority Be Shared? Kimberly Sawyer, MD and Abby R. Rosenberg, MD, MS, MA Shared decision making is complex with patients who are adolescents, whose relational autonomy is still emerging. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(5):E372-379. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.372. Case and Commentary Feb 2020 How Should Physicians in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Regard Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems to Facilitate Smoking Cessation? Thomas E. Novotny, MD, MPH, DSc (Hon) and May C. I. van Schalkwyk, MBBS, MPH Vaping has been thought to be a safe, effective smoking cessation aid, but little evidence supports its value in mitigating tobacco use. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(2):E82-92. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.82. In the Literature Apr 2016 A Defense of “The Case for Conserving Disability” Jasmine Zahid Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s argument for disability as a sociocultural resource challenges the commonsense understanding of disability as a deficit. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):399-405. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.nlit2-1604. State of the Art and Science Apr 2016 Keeping the Backdoor to Eugenics Ajar?: Disability and the Future of Prenatal Screening Gareth M. Thomas, PhD and Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD Noninvasive prenatal testing arguably constitutes a form of eugenics in a social context in which certain reproductive outcomes are not valued. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):406-415. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.stas1-1604. Medicine and Society Apr 2022 Language and Health (In)Equity in US Latinx Communities Zackary Berger, MD, PhD and Yael Peled, DPhil In US health care, language and linguistic difference are often conceived in discrete, instrumental, and monolithic terms. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(4):E313-318. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.313. Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Current page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Medicine and Society Oct 2021 Where’s the Value in Preoperative Covenants Between Surgeons and Patients? Robert Ledbetter and Buddy Marterre, MD, MDiv Clinician-family communication in surgical intensive care units should focus on reducing value incongruence and nonbeneficial operations. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E814-822. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.814.
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.
Medicine and Society Oct 2019 How Should Decision Aids Be Used During Counseling to Help Patients Who Are “Genetically at Risk”? Natalie Evans, PhD, Suzanne Metselaar, PhD, Carla van El, PhD, Nina Hallowell, DPhil, MA, and Guy Widdershoven, PhD Prognostic uncertainty about risk creates demand for ongoing communication and facilitated reflection about goals and values. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(10):E865-872. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.865.
Case and Commentary Dec 2019 Using the 4-S Framework to Guide Conversations With Patients About CRISPR Lisa S. Lehmann, MD, PhD, MSc Empathic communication skills help motivate understanding of safety, significance of harms, impact on succeeding generations, and social consequences. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(12):E1029-1035. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.1029.
Case and Commentary Apr 2016 Prenatal Risk Assessment and Diagnosis of Down Syndrome: Strategies for Communicating Well with Patients Eva Schwartz, MD and Kishore Vellody, MD Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):359-364. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.ecas1-1604.
Case and Commentary May 2020 How Should Adolescent Health Decision-Making Authority Be Shared? Kimberly Sawyer, MD and Abby R. Rosenberg, MD, MS, MA Shared decision making is complex with patients who are adolescents, whose relational autonomy is still emerging. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(5):E372-379. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.372.
Case and Commentary Feb 2020 How Should Physicians in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Regard Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems to Facilitate Smoking Cessation? Thomas E. Novotny, MD, MPH, DSc (Hon) and May C. I. van Schalkwyk, MBBS, MPH Vaping has been thought to be a safe, effective smoking cessation aid, but little evidence supports its value in mitigating tobacco use. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(2):E82-92. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.82.
In the Literature Apr 2016 A Defense of “The Case for Conserving Disability” Jasmine Zahid Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s argument for disability as a sociocultural resource challenges the commonsense understanding of disability as a deficit. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):399-405. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.nlit2-1604.
State of the Art and Science Apr 2016 Keeping the Backdoor to Eugenics Ajar?: Disability and the Future of Prenatal Screening Gareth M. Thomas, PhD and Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD Noninvasive prenatal testing arguably constitutes a form of eugenics in a social context in which certain reproductive outcomes are not valued. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):406-415. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.stas1-1604.
Medicine and Society Apr 2022 Language and Health (In)Equity in US Latinx Communities Zackary Berger, MD, PhD and Yael Peled, DPhil In US health care, language and linguistic difference are often conceived in discrete, instrumental, and monolithic terms. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(4):E313-318. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.313.