Carmen Black Parker, MD, Amanda Calhoun, MD, MPH, Ambrose H. Wong, MD, MSEd, Larry Davidson, PhD, and Charles Dike, MBChB, MPH
Psychiatric emergencies, coping stress reactions, and iatrogenic injuries are not responded to with the same vigor as acute medical decompensation. That needs to change.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(11):E956-964. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.956.
Deborah M. Eng, MS, MA and Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE
A just culture perspective suggests that punitive responses to those who err should be reserved for those who have willfully and irremediably caused harm.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(9):E779-783. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.779.
Researchers and clinicians face ethical and policy-based challenges in disclosing, preventing and treating psychosis. Which diagnostic labels should be considered to motivate more effective public and professional dialogue about psychosis risk?
AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(6):624-632. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.6.msoc1-1606.
Hannah R. Sullivan and Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE
Legal questions regarding clinicians’ and technology manufacturers’ liability arise when algorithmic recommendations generated by the technology are hard to understand.
AMA J Ethics. 2019; 21(2):E160-166. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2019.160.