Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary Feb 2021 Advancing Health Equity by Avoiding Judgmentalism and Contextualizing Care Saul J. Weiner, MD Judgmentalism applied to patients from poor and marginalized communities exacerbates health inequity and illuminates the importance of contextualizing a patient’s care. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(2):E91-96. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.91. Case and Commentary Apr 2021 How Should Clinicians Execute Critical Force Interventions With Compassion, Not Just Harm Minimization, as a Clinical and Ethical Goal? Robert L. Trestman, PhD, MD and Kishore Nagaraja, MD Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(4):E292-297. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.292. Case and Commentary Apr 2021 How Should Compassion Be Expressed as a Primary Clinical and Ethical Value in Anorexia Nervosa Intervention? Melissa Lavoie, MD and Angela S. Guarda, MD For an adolescent patient with extreme anorexia nervosa, steps for expressing compassion during a force intervention need to be clear. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(4):E298-304. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.298. Case and Commentary Apr 2021 Who Should Implement Force When It’s Needed and How Should It Be Done Compassionately? Matthew Lin, MD Covert medication administration might be as forceful as physical or chemical restraint for patients lacking insight. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(4):E311-317. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.311. Case and Commentary May 2021 Should Patients Who Receive Postexposure Prophylaxis After Sexual Assault Be Considered for Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV? Michela Blain, MD and Julia C. Dombrowski, MD, MPH Patient-centered care means offering potentially beneficial interventions while avoiding retraumatizing a patient. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(5):E388-393. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.388. Case and Commentary Jun 2021 How Should Clinicians Address a Patient’s Experience of Transgenerational Trauma? Ashley Suah, MD and Brian Williams, MD Respecting patient autonomy while seeking to understand patients’ unique perspectives can strengthen patient-surgeon relationships. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(6):E440-445. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.440. Case and Commentary Jun 2021 Trauma-Informed Caring for Native American Patients and Communities Prioritizes Healing, Not Management Michael J. Oldani, PhD, MS and Deidre Prosen, MFA, MS Clinicians must express humility, understand local culture, collaborate, and develop an insider’s perspective on past and present life. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(6):E446-455. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.446. Case and Commentary Jul 2021 When Symptoms Aren’t Visible or Measurable, How Should Disability Be Assessed? Cerise L. Glenn, PhD Patients writing daily journal briefs about work-related activities and pain can help clinicians help them. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E514-518. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.514. Case and Commentary Jul 2021 A Womanist Approach to Caring for Patients With Empirically Unverifiable Symptoms Annette Madlock Gatison, PhD Hyperfocus on measurability can result in evidentiary overreliance and undervaluation of patients’ experience narratives. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E519-523. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.519. Case and Commentary Jul 2021 When Imaging Data Contradict a Patient’s Self-report, How Should Clinicians Proceed? Joyeeta G. Dastidar, MD, MS, HEC-C Patients’ perceptions of how much input they have in making health decisions influence therapeutic alliance and outcomes. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E524-529. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.524. Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Current page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Case and Commentary Feb 2021 Advancing Health Equity by Avoiding Judgmentalism and Contextualizing Care Saul J. Weiner, MD Judgmentalism applied to patients from poor and marginalized communities exacerbates health inequity and illuminates the importance of contextualizing a patient’s care. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(2):E91-96. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.91.
Case and Commentary Apr 2021 How Should Clinicians Execute Critical Force Interventions With Compassion, Not Just Harm Minimization, as a Clinical and Ethical Goal? Robert L. Trestman, PhD, MD and Kishore Nagaraja, MD Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(4):E292-297. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.292.
Case and Commentary Apr 2021 How Should Compassion Be Expressed as a Primary Clinical and Ethical Value in Anorexia Nervosa Intervention? Melissa Lavoie, MD and Angela S. Guarda, MD For an adolescent patient with extreme anorexia nervosa, steps for expressing compassion during a force intervention need to be clear. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(4):E298-304. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.298.
Case and Commentary Apr 2021 Who Should Implement Force When It’s Needed and How Should It Be Done Compassionately? Matthew Lin, MD Covert medication administration might be as forceful as physical or chemical restraint for patients lacking insight. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(4):E311-317. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.311.
Case and Commentary May 2021 Should Patients Who Receive Postexposure Prophylaxis After Sexual Assault Be Considered for Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV? Michela Blain, MD and Julia C. Dombrowski, MD, MPH Patient-centered care means offering potentially beneficial interventions while avoiding retraumatizing a patient. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(5):E388-393. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.388.
Case and Commentary Jun 2021 How Should Clinicians Address a Patient’s Experience of Transgenerational Trauma? Ashley Suah, MD and Brian Williams, MD Respecting patient autonomy while seeking to understand patients’ unique perspectives can strengthen patient-surgeon relationships. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(6):E440-445. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.440.
Case and Commentary Jun 2021 Trauma-Informed Caring for Native American Patients and Communities Prioritizes Healing, Not Management Michael J. Oldani, PhD, MS and Deidre Prosen, MFA, MS Clinicians must express humility, understand local culture, collaborate, and develop an insider’s perspective on past and present life. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(6):E446-455. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.446.
Case and Commentary Jul 2021 When Symptoms Aren’t Visible or Measurable, How Should Disability Be Assessed? Cerise L. Glenn, PhD Patients writing daily journal briefs about work-related activities and pain can help clinicians help them. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E514-518. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.514.
Case and Commentary Jul 2021 A Womanist Approach to Caring for Patients With Empirically Unverifiable Symptoms Annette Madlock Gatison, PhD Hyperfocus on measurability can result in evidentiary overreliance and undervaluation of patients’ experience narratives. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E519-523. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.519.
Case and Commentary Jul 2021 When Imaging Data Contradict a Patient’s Self-report, How Should Clinicians Proceed? Joyeeta G. Dastidar, MD, MS, HEC-C Patients’ perceptions of how much input they have in making health decisions influence therapeutic alliance and outcomes. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E524-529. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.524.