Dr Kristen R. Choi joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Bantale Ayisire: “When Experiencing Inequitable Health Care Is a Patient’s Norm, How Should Iatrogenic Harm Be Considered?”

Dr Jeannie P. Cimiotti joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Kimberly Adams Tufts, Lucia D. Wocial, and Elizabeth Peter: “How Should Focus Be Shifted From Individual Preference to Collective Wisdom for Patients at the End of Life With Antimicrobial-Resistant Infections?”

Despite challenges of decision making for unrepresented patients, few laws or policy statements offer solutions. This article offers 5 key things to do.

Follow simple rules, such as checking whether patients comprehend what they’ve been told, to help patients overcome barriers posed by clinical jargon.

By cultivating cultural humility, physicians can address not only stereotypes and biases but also power inequalities and community inequities.

Perhaps machine learning systems trained on patients’ electronic health records and social media footprints could be used as decision aids when patients lack capacity or face overwhelming decisions.

Health care organizations have obligations to support all patients mothering newborns in making informed choices about formula and breast feeding.

Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization.

建立同情心最大化的標準將有助於我們做得比傷害最小化更好

Establecer criterios para maximizar la compasión nos ayudaría a lograr algo mejor que la minimización del daño.