Nancy Berlinger, PhD and Annalise Berlinger, BSN, RN
Physicians’ reliance on “culture” to explain patients’ noncompliance may serve as code for their discomfort with difference, uncertainty, and distress.
AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(6):608-616. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.6.msoc1-1706.
Amy E. Caruso Brown, MD, MSc, MSCS and Rebecca Garden, PhD
Physician illness narratives create a bond with patients through the shared experience of vulnerability but risk extending the physician’s own authority.
AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(5):501-507. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.5.imhl1-1705.
The practice of banking sperm from adolescents about to undergo chemotherapy is not universal, which lends support to the argument that parental consent be required for the intervention.
People with autism have a right to access “autism-friendly” theatrical performances. Theater-based treatment programs can help remove stigma and cultivate participants’ reciprocal social communication skills.
AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(12):1232-1240. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.12.imhl1-1612.
The image, “Dirty Laundry: Drug Formulary Exclusions,” calls attention to how drug formularies undermine physicians’ and patients’ medical decision making.
AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(6):629-630. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.6.imhl1-1706.
A medical student’s desire to practice the specialty that he or she finds most interesting should not outweigh the right of patients in a pluralistic society to receive a full range of legal medical services.
Forced migration of Pacific Islanders raises ethical issues of health and health care disparities, which are examined in the case of Tuvaluan immigrants.
AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(12):1211-1221. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.12.imhl1-1712.