A graphic memoir documents clinical and ethical disagreements and decision points throughout a paramedic team’s time with an incarcerated patient in labor.
AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(10):E902-903. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2019.902.
Decision making in health care demands that we balance multiple considerations, like quality of life, statistics, and how different options could affect others. Dr Brian Zikmund-Fisher shares his own experience as a patient and explains how decision science can help us navigate ethically complex health decisions.
What constitutes quality of life, from whose perspective it is assessed, and which values or measurements it is based upon are key questions in vascular composite allotransplanation.
AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(11):E933-935. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2019.933.