Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary May 2019 Should Physicians Offer a Ventricular Assist Device to a Pediatric Oncology Patient With a Poor Prognosis? Angira Patel, MD, MPH, Anna Joong, MD, Efrat Lelkes, MD, and Jeffrey G. Gossett, MD When evaluating a 10-year-old with leukemia and chemo-induced heart failure for VAD placement, a team considers what to do. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(5):E380-386. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.380. 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 Aug 2022 When Is Iatrogenic Harm Negligent? Ramya Sampath All harm resulting from negligence is iatrogenic, but not all iatrogenic injury is negligent. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(8):E735-739. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.735. Podcast Aug 2022 Author Interview: “When Is Iatrogenic Harm Negligent?” Ramya Sampath joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “When Is Iatrogenic Harm Negligent?” Case and Commentary Sep 2006 Communication Failure in the ICU Diane E. Meier, MD Virtual Mentor. 2006;8(9):564-570. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2006.8.9.ccas2-0609. Medicine and Society Mar 2009 New Forces Shaping the Patient-Physician Relationship Howard A. Brody, MD, PhD Society values both the appropriate use of new technological and management innovations and the maintenance of a strong personal and therapeutic relationship between patients and physicians. The medical-home model may be able to accomplish both. Virtual Mentor. 2009;11(3):253-256. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2009.11.3.msoc1-0903. Case and Commentary Dec 2020 How Should Clinicians Respond When Patients’ Loved Ones Do Not See “Brain Death” as Death? Rabbi Jason Weiner, DBioethics and Rabbi Charles Sheer, MA, BCC Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E995-1003. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.995. Case and Commentary Jun 2017 What Should Physicians Do When They Disagree, Clinically and Ethically, with a Surrogate’s Wishes? Terri Traudt, MA, MBC and Joan Liaschenko, PhD, RN Moral distress can be reduced by approaching the patient-physician relationship with empathy and humility, which foster trust and good communication. AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(6):558-563. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.6.ecas4-1706.
Case and Commentary May 2019 Should Physicians Offer a Ventricular Assist Device to a Pediatric Oncology Patient With a Poor Prognosis? Angira Patel, MD, MPH, Anna Joong, MD, Efrat Lelkes, MD, and Jeffrey G. Gossett, MD When evaluating a 10-year-old with leukemia and chemo-induced heart failure for VAD placement, a team considers what to do. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(5):E380-386. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.380.
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 Aug 2022 When Is Iatrogenic Harm Negligent? Ramya Sampath All harm resulting from negligence is iatrogenic, but not all iatrogenic injury is negligent. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(8):E735-739. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.735.
Podcast Aug 2022 Author Interview: “When Is Iatrogenic Harm Negligent?” Ramya Sampath joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “When Is Iatrogenic Harm Negligent?”
Case and Commentary Sep 2006 Communication Failure in the ICU Diane E. Meier, MD Virtual Mentor. 2006;8(9):564-570. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2006.8.9.ccas2-0609.
Medicine and Society Mar 2009 New Forces Shaping the Patient-Physician Relationship Howard A. Brody, MD, PhD Society values both the appropriate use of new technological and management innovations and the maintenance of a strong personal and therapeutic relationship between patients and physicians. The medical-home model may be able to accomplish both. Virtual Mentor. 2009;11(3):253-256. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2009.11.3.msoc1-0903.
Case and Commentary Dec 2020 How Should Clinicians Respond When Patients’ Loved Ones Do Not See “Brain Death” as Death? Rabbi Jason Weiner, DBioethics and Rabbi Charles Sheer, MA, BCC Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E995-1003. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.995.
Case and Commentary Jun 2017 What Should Physicians Do When They Disagree, Clinically and Ethically, with a Surrogate’s Wishes? Terri Traudt, MA, MBC and Joan Liaschenko, PhD, RN Moral distress can be reduced by approaching the patient-physician relationship with empathy and humility, which foster trust and good communication. AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(6):558-563. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.6.ecas4-1706.