In the September 2014 issue on physicians as agents of social change, Dr. Audiey Kao, editor-in-chief of Virtual Mentor interviewed Dr. Rajiv Shah, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development or USAID.
Dr Veronica Hutchison joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Eve Espey: “How Should IUD Placement Pain Be Described and Managed?”
Dr Suzanne Minor joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Arianna Tapia and Dr Sarah E. Stumbar: “Abortion in the Nineteenth Century Through the Lens of Ann Lohman.”
The adverse health effects of climate change should be the focus of physician advocacy efforts and of conversations between physicians and their patients.
AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(12):1174-1182. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.12.ecas3-1712.
Direct sterilization by means of tubal ligation is morally unacceptable in Catholic bioethics but other procedures that result in indirect sterilization may be acceptable under certain conditions.