This commentary on a case considers a transgender patient’s mental health and risk for DVT in ethical decision making about feminizing gender-affirming hormone therapy.
AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(6):E386-390. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.386.
Dr Eric Plemons joins Ethics Talk to discuss facial feminization surgery and how clinicians can best support patient decisions about gender-affirming care.
Whitney V. Cabey, MD, MSHP, MA, Nicolle K. Strand, JD, MBE, MPH, and Erin Marshall, MSS, LSW
An emerging and important goal of health professions training is to develop a workforce equipped to address structural determinants of patients’ health.
AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(1):E48-53. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2024.48.
Dr Joost van Herten joins Ethics Talk to discuss how comparing different conceptions of health can help us interrogate just exactly what a One Health approach to health offers and what it doesn't.
When women and others who have been traditionally underrepresented in medicine gain greater membership in the profession, they have a responsibility to avoid imposing a group-based viewpoint and must remain open to more collaborative thinking.
Physicians have an obligation to consider a patient’s quality of life when making treatment decisions and should consider giving patients the options of withholding or withdrawing aggressive treatment if that treatment will not restore the kind of life the patient finds meaningful.
An argument that physicians who refuse to respond to emergency department calls are acting unprofessionally by declaring, in effect, that their needs are more important than those of their colleagues.