An ethical case explores whether an attending physician should allow a medical student to place a central line on a Medicaid patient even though the student has failed the procedure two previous times.
The author believes the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs should collaborate with academic physicians to create clear professional standards for the field of medicine.
Academic and community physicians must do more to limit unreasonable work shift lengths in medical education and training in order to protect the health and safety of patients and doctors.
The concept of professionalism in medicine has been expanded over the years to cover a broad set of ideas about everyday behavior and habits of physicians.
The medical student believes that the art of doctoring is learned continuously over time and cannot be assessed in a proposed medical school examination.
The AMA's Code of Medical Ethics is cited as the gold standard for issues surrounding informed consent by family members for procedures to be performed on the newly deceased.