Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary May 2024 Should Antimicrobial Resistance Limit Access to an Organ Transplant? Andrew Courtwright, MD, PhD This article discusses fiduciary obligations transplant programs might have to patients with B cenocepacia. AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(5):E367-372. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.367. Case and Commentary Aug 2024 What Should Clinicians in Organizations Without Established MLP Programs Do When Their Patients Need Lawyers to Meet Their Health Needs? Dinushika Mohottige, MD, MPH, Karina Albistegui Adler, JD, Allison Charney, JD, and Lilia Cervantes, MD, MSc Undocumented people in the US face legal and structural barriers to health care services, including for kidney failure. AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(8):E605-615. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.605. Case and Commentary Oct 2021 How to Support Patients Near the End of Life Whose Pain Is Best Treated With Surgery? Elle L. Kalbfell, MD and Margaret L. Schwarze, MD, MPP When surgical intervention is most appropriate, success should be defined by how well a surgical intervention aligns with a patient’s goals. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E772-777. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.772. Case and Commentary Oct 2021 When Should Neuroendovascular Care for Patients With Acute Stroke Be Palliative? Michael J. Young, MD, MPhil, Robert W. Regenhardt, MD, PhD, Leonard L. Sokol, MD, and Thabele M. Leslie-Mazwi, MD For some patients whose survival is extended by disease-modifying interventions, little guidance about clinical and ethical complexities exist. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E783-793. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.783. Medicine and Society Oct 2021 “Aren’t Surgery and Palliative Care Kind of Opposites?” Myrick C. Shinall Jr, MD, PhD Seeming incongruity between surgery and palliation reiterates patients’ needs for clinicians to be able to identify when and how they should coexist. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E823-825. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.823. Case and Commentary Oct 2021 Who Should Decide When Palliative Surgery Is Justifiable? Joshua T. Cohen, MD and Thomas J. Miner, MD No single person should make decisions about for whom or according to which criteria palliative surgery is clinically and ethically appropriate. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E761-765. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.761. Medicine and Society Nov 2019 What Are Good Guidelines for Evaluating Uterus Transplantation? Margaret Horvat, MA and Ana Iltis, PhD Recent advances in UTx suggest it is on a trajectory toward becoming an accepted clinical practice to treat absolute uterine factor infertility. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(11):E988-995. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.988. Health Law Nov 2020 How Hospital Leaders and Risk Managers Can Nurture Ethics-Driven Lawyering Norine A. McGrath, MD, Evan G. DeRenzo, PhD, John K. Kilcullen, MD, JD, MPH, and Jack Schwartz, JD Hospital lawyers’ practices shape risk management operations, influence clinicians’ morale, and affect patient care. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(11):E933-939. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.933. Medicine and Society Dec 2020 Bringing Dying Out of the Hospital’s Closet Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN, MA A patient’s transition from “living” to “dying” is not socially marked in the same way death is marked, and this is both clinically and ethically relevant. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1062-1066. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1062. Case and Commentary Sep 2023 According to Which Health Outcomes Measures Should Palliative Psychiatric Prognosis, Progress, and Success Be Defined? Nicolas Trad This commentary on a case considers moral reasons to adopt a palliative approach to the care of some psychiatric patients. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(9):E684-689. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.684. Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Current page 5 Page 6 Next page Next › Last page Last »
Case and Commentary May 2024 Should Antimicrobial Resistance Limit Access to an Organ Transplant? Andrew Courtwright, MD, PhD This article discusses fiduciary obligations transplant programs might have to patients with B cenocepacia. AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(5):E367-372. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.367.
Case and Commentary Aug 2024 What Should Clinicians in Organizations Without Established MLP Programs Do When Their Patients Need Lawyers to Meet Their Health Needs? Dinushika Mohottige, MD, MPH, Karina Albistegui Adler, JD, Allison Charney, JD, and Lilia Cervantes, MD, MSc Undocumented people in the US face legal and structural barriers to health care services, including for kidney failure. AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(8):E605-615. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.605.
Case and Commentary Oct 2021 How to Support Patients Near the End of Life Whose Pain Is Best Treated With Surgery? Elle L. Kalbfell, MD and Margaret L. Schwarze, MD, MPP When surgical intervention is most appropriate, success should be defined by how well a surgical intervention aligns with a patient’s goals. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E772-777. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.772.
Case and Commentary Oct 2021 When Should Neuroendovascular Care for Patients With Acute Stroke Be Palliative? Michael J. Young, MD, MPhil, Robert W. Regenhardt, MD, PhD, Leonard L. Sokol, MD, and Thabele M. Leslie-Mazwi, MD For some patients whose survival is extended by disease-modifying interventions, little guidance about clinical and ethical complexities exist. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E783-793. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.783.
Medicine and Society Oct 2021 “Aren’t Surgery and Palliative Care Kind of Opposites?” Myrick C. Shinall Jr, MD, PhD Seeming incongruity between surgery and palliation reiterates patients’ needs for clinicians to be able to identify when and how they should coexist. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E823-825. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.823.
Case and Commentary Oct 2021 Who Should Decide When Palliative Surgery Is Justifiable? Joshua T. Cohen, MD and Thomas J. Miner, MD No single person should make decisions about for whom or according to which criteria palliative surgery is clinically and ethically appropriate. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E761-765. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.761.
Medicine and Society Nov 2019 What Are Good Guidelines for Evaluating Uterus Transplantation? Margaret Horvat, MA and Ana Iltis, PhD Recent advances in UTx suggest it is on a trajectory toward becoming an accepted clinical practice to treat absolute uterine factor infertility. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(11):E988-995. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.988.
Health Law Nov 2020 How Hospital Leaders and Risk Managers Can Nurture Ethics-Driven Lawyering Norine A. McGrath, MD, Evan G. DeRenzo, PhD, John K. Kilcullen, MD, JD, MPH, and Jack Schwartz, JD Hospital lawyers’ practices shape risk management operations, influence clinicians’ morale, and affect patient care. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(11):E933-939. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.933.
Medicine and Society Dec 2020 Bringing Dying Out of the Hospital’s Closet Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN, MA A patient’s transition from “living” to “dying” is not socially marked in the same way death is marked, and this is both clinically and ethically relevant. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1062-1066. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1062.
Case and Commentary Sep 2023 According to Which Health Outcomes Measures Should Palliative Psychiatric Prognosis, Progress, and Success Be Defined? Nicolas Trad This commentary on a case considers moral reasons to adopt a palliative approach to the care of some psychiatric patients. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(9):E684-689. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.684.
