Dr David J. Satin joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Christine C. Danner and Ila M. Harris: “How Does Cognitive Bias Affect Conversations With Patients About Dietary Supplements?”
Dr Rajani Katta joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dina H. Zamil, Emily K. Burns, and Dr Ariadna Perez-Sanchez: “Do You Know How to Assess Risks Posed by Over-the-Counter Vitamin A Supplements?”
Weight loss is not a safe, effective, or permanent method of health promotion, and pharmacotherapeutical approaches pose specific risks to adolescents.
AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(7):E478-495. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.478.
One of the many doors money and power often open gives access to opioids where they would otherwise be withheld without strict oversight and management. Elvis Presley provides perhaps the most famous example of unmanaged access to drugs.
An older generation was far more likely to understand itself and its social world in terms of sin and virtue, vice and godliness. Lack of self-control and weakness of will were moral failings to be avoided. That sort of language has fallen on hard times.