To make good communication choices for their children who are deaf or hard of hearing, hearing parents must develop their understanding of hearing loss.
AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(4):442-446. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.sect1-1604.
Clinicians can practice disability humility by developing social understandings of disability. This can help clinicians improve communication and express respect for patients’ authority about their experiences.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(12):E1181-1187. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2018.1181
Lee C. Zhao, MD, Gaines Blasdel, Augustus Parker, and Rachel Bluebond-Langner, MD
Tension between realistic goals and unrealistic views about how to achieve them is compounded when patients are eager to revise a prior surgeon’s gender-affirming procedure.
AMA J Ethics. 2023; 25(6):E391-397. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.391.
Dr Chloë G. K. Atkins joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Sunit Das: “What Should Clinicians and Patients Know About the Clinical Gaze, Disability, and Iatrogenic Harm When Making Decisions?”
Tia Powell, MD, Sophia Shapiro, MD, and Ed Stein, JD, PhD
“Born that way” arguments have been used to establish transgender rights, but lack scientific evidence. Stronger support for promoting transgender rights comes instead from human rights-based language.
AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(11):1126-1131. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.11.pfor3-1611.