When we approach art with awe and treat medicine as serious business, perhaps we’re depriving ourselves of the funniest tool in the health and wellness toolbox.
AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(7):E624-627. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.624.
Undocumented patients in the United States with end-stage renal disease receive “compassionate” dialysis. Such patients oscillate between being marginally well and “ill enough” to receive dialysis while clinicians wrestle with complicity in a system that both offers and withholds life-saving therapy.
AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(8):E778-779. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2018.778.
A 1924 cover of a publication called Radio News showed the first glimpses into what medicine and the patient-physician relationship might look like in the future.