Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary Dec 2020 What Should We Do When Families Refuse Testing for Brain Death? Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, Wynne Morrison, MD, MBE, and Matthew Kirschen, MD, PhD Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E986-994. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.986. Case and Commentary Apr 2016 Prenatal Risk Assessment and Diagnosis of Down Syndrome: Strategies for Communicating Well with Patients Eva Schwartz, MD and Kishore Vellody, MD Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):359-364. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.ecas1-1604. Medicine and Society Mar 2020 How Should We Judge Whether and When Mission Statements Are Ethically Deployed? Kellie E. Schueler and Debra B. Stulberg, MD Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E239-247. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.239. Case and Commentary Jan 2023 Is It Reasonable to Expect Students and Trainees to Internalize Equity as a Core Professional Value When Teaching and Learning Occurs in Segregated Settings? Adriana Pero and Emily L. Xu Training in a segregated health care system means that health professions students and trainees learn bias and experience helplessness and burnout. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(1):E15-20. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.15. Case and Commentary Sep 2007 Assisted Reproduction and Primum Non Nocere Marta Kolthoff, MD Virtual Mentor. 2007;9(9):605-610. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.9.ccas2-0709. Case and Commentary Jun 2007 Sex Selection for Nonmedical Reasons Louise P. King, MD, JD Virtual Mentor. 2007;9(6):418-422. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.6.ccas3-0706. Viewpoint Sep 2009 Informed Consent and Prenatal Testing: The Kennedy-Brownback Act Adrienne Asch, PhD and David Wasserman, JD Virtual Mentor. 2009;11(9):721-724. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2009.11.9.oped1-0909. Case and Commentary Oct 2014 Sex Selection for Family Balancing Harry J. Lieman, MD and Andrzej K. Breborowicz, MD, PhD Should couples undergoing IVF be allowed to request sex selection for nonmedical so-called family balancing? Virtual Mentor. 2014;16(10):797-802. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.10.ecas3-1410.
Case and Commentary Dec 2020 What Should We Do When Families Refuse Testing for Brain Death? Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, Wynne Morrison, MD, MBE, and Matthew Kirschen, MD, PhD Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E986-994. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.986.
Case and Commentary Apr 2016 Prenatal Risk Assessment and Diagnosis of Down Syndrome: Strategies for Communicating Well with Patients Eva Schwartz, MD and Kishore Vellody, MD Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):359-364. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.ecas1-1604.
Medicine and Society Mar 2020 How Should We Judge Whether and When Mission Statements Are Ethically Deployed? Kellie E. Schueler and Debra B. Stulberg, MD Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E239-247. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.239.
Case and Commentary Jan 2023 Is It Reasonable to Expect Students and Trainees to Internalize Equity as a Core Professional Value When Teaching and Learning Occurs in Segregated Settings? Adriana Pero and Emily L. Xu Training in a segregated health care system means that health professions students and trainees learn bias and experience helplessness and burnout. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(1):E15-20. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.15.
Case and Commentary Sep 2007 Assisted Reproduction and Primum Non Nocere Marta Kolthoff, MD Virtual Mentor. 2007;9(9):605-610. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.9.ccas2-0709.
Case and Commentary Jun 2007 Sex Selection for Nonmedical Reasons Louise P. King, MD, JD Virtual Mentor. 2007;9(6):418-422. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.6.ccas3-0706.
Viewpoint Sep 2009 Informed Consent and Prenatal Testing: The Kennedy-Brownback Act Adrienne Asch, PhD and David Wasserman, JD Virtual Mentor. 2009;11(9):721-724. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2009.11.9.oped1-0909.
Case and Commentary Oct 2014 Sex Selection for Family Balancing Harry J. Lieman, MD and Andrzej K. Breborowicz, MD, PhD Should couples undergoing IVF be allowed to request sex selection for nonmedical so-called family balancing? Virtual Mentor. 2014;16(10):797-802. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.10.ecas3-1410.