Nishita Pondugula and Dr Louise P. King join Ethics Talk to discuss their article, coauthored with Parmida Maghsoudlou and Dr Vardit Ravitsky: “What Does Our Tolerance of Poor Management of Patients’ Pain Have to Do With Reimbursement Inequity for Office-Based Gynecologic Procedures?”
Women who are pregnant might not treat their mental illnesses because they overestimate risks of medication and underestimate risks of leaving their illness untreated.
AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(6):614-623. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.6.stas1-1606.
When deciding whether a pregnant woman will take antidepressants that pose a slight risk to the fetus, the patient and doctor must each make value-based determinations about whether absolute protection of the fetus is more important than preventing the mother’s probable suffering.
Nishita Pondugula, MS, Parmida Maghsoudlou, Vardit Ravitsky, PhD, and Louise P. King, MD, JD
Los procedimientos ginecológicos en el consultorio (OBGP) se reembolsan a tarifas más bajas que los procedimientos similares de urología y dermatología en el consultorio.
