Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary Dec 2020 How Should Clinicians Respond When Patients’ Loved Ones Do Not See “Brain Death” as Death? Rabbi Jason Weiner, DBioethics and Rabbi Charles Sheer, MA, BCC Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E995-1003. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.995. Policy Forum Dec 2020 Inconsistency in Brain Death Determination Should Not Be Tolerated Erin Barnes, MD and David Greer, MD, MA Since 1995, the American Academy of Neurology has provided guidelines for brain death determination, but nationwide adherence to these guidelines has been incomplete. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1027-1032. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1027. Medical Education Jan 2021 How Should Students Learn About Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals’ Roles in the Holocaust? Robert Baker, PhD The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E31-37. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.31. 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. History of Medicine Jan 2022 Is Oral Health Essential? Elizabeth McGough and Lisa Simon, MD, DMD COVID-19 teaches us how to design a unified health care system that transcends historical precedent. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(1):E80-88. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.80. Medical Education Nov 2021 Training Clinicians to Care for Patients Where They Are Margaret M. Sullivan, DrPH, FNP-BC, Emily E. Lazowy, MA, Jill S. Roncarati, ScD, MPH, PA-C, Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH, and James J. O'Connell, MD US health care desperately needs a workforce prepared to respond equitably to social influences on health needs of people experiencing homelessness. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(11):E852-857. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.852. Viewpoint Feb 2022 Crisis Intervention Team Program Leadership Must Include Psychiatrists Mark R. Munetz, MD and Natalie Bonfine, PhD CIT programs are partnerships between police and the mental health community members developed with little involvement from psychiatrists. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(2):E154-159. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.154. Medicine and Society Apr 2022 Recognizing and Dismantling Raciolinguistic Hierarchies in Latinx Health Pilar Ortega, MD, Glenn Martínez, PhD, MPH, Marco A. Alemán, MD, Alejandra Zapién-Hidalgo, MD, MPH, and Tiffany M. Shin, MD Raciolinguistic hierarchies can undermine the quality of Latinx patients’ health experiences. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(4):E296-304. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.296. Case and Commentary Jul 2021 How Should Clinicians Minimize Harms and Maximize Benefits When Diagnosing and Treating Disorders Without Biomarkers? Benjamin Tolchin, MD, MS, Dorothy W. Tolchin, MD, EdM, and Michael Ashley Stein, JD, PhD Public and self-stigma negatively influence patients’ quality of life, employment, and housing opportunities. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E530-536. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.530. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Next page Next › Last page Last »
Case and Commentary Dec 2020 How Should Clinicians Respond When Patients’ Loved Ones Do Not See “Brain Death” as Death? Rabbi Jason Weiner, DBioethics and Rabbi Charles Sheer, MA, BCC Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E995-1003. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.995.
Policy Forum Dec 2020 Inconsistency in Brain Death Determination Should Not Be Tolerated Erin Barnes, MD and David Greer, MD, MA Since 1995, the American Academy of Neurology has provided guidelines for brain death determination, but nationwide adherence to these guidelines has been incomplete. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1027-1032. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1027.
Medical Education Jan 2021 How Should Students Learn About Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals’ Roles in the Holocaust? Robert Baker, PhD The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E31-37. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.31.
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.
History of Medicine Jan 2022 Is Oral Health Essential? Elizabeth McGough and Lisa Simon, MD, DMD COVID-19 teaches us how to design a unified health care system that transcends historical precedent. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(1):E80-88. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.80.
Medical Education Nov 2021 Training Clinicians to Care for Patients Where They Are Margaret M. Sullivan, DrPH, FNP-BC, Emily E. Lazowy, MA, Jill S. Roncarati, ScD, MPH, PA-C, Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH, and James J. O'Connell, MD US health care desperately needs a workforce prepared to respond equitably to social influences on health needs of people experiencing homelessness. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(11):E852-857. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.852.
Viewpoint Feb 2022 Crisis Intervention Team Program Leadership Must Include Psychiatrists Mark R. Munetz, MD and Natalie Bonfine, PhD CIT programs are partnerships between police and the mental health community members developed with little involvement from psychiatrists. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(2):E154-159. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.154.
Medicine and Society Apr 2022 Recognizing and Dismantling Raciolinguistic Hierarchies in Latinx Health Pilar Ortega, MD, Glenn Martínez, PhD, MPH, Marco A. Alemán, MD, Alejandra Zapién-Hidalgo, MD, MPH, and Tiffany M. Shin, MD Raciolinguistic hierarchies can undermine the quality of Latinx patients’ health experiences. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(4):E296-304. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.296.
Case and Commentary Jul 2021 How Should Clinicians Minimize Harms and Maximize Benefits When Diagnosing and Treating Disorders Without Biomarkers? Benjamin Tolchin, MD, MS, Dorothy W. Tolchin, MD, EdM, and Michael Ashley Stein, JD, PhD Public and self-stigma negatively influence patients’ quality of life, employment, and housing opportunities. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E530-536. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.530.