Dr Brandon Morshedi joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Faroukh Mehkri: “Should a Physician Ever Violate SWAT or TEMS Protocol in a Mass Casualty Incident?”
Bjorg Thorsteinsdottir, MD, Annika Beck, and Jon C. Tilburt, MD, MPH
Good clinicians understand why a patient is asking for a test or treatment, and their skillful counseling can often stem the tide of requests for marginally beneficial tests and procedures.
AMA J Ethics. 2015; 17(11):1028-1034. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.11.ecas2-1511.
Divya Yerramilli, MD, MBE, Alexandra Charrow, MD, MBE, and Arthur Caplan, PhD
Physicians should be aware of the powerful impact celebrities’ cancer narratives can have on patients’ experiences of their illnesses and treatment decisions. Partnering with celebrities is one strategy for delivering evidence-based health information and messaging to the public.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(11):E1075-1081. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2018.1075.
Global health outreach programs can risk benefitting students from resource-rich areas of the world more than the patients in resource-poor areas of the world. This month’s episode of Ethics Talk explores an alternative to academic health center-based health outreach programs.
Elizabeth Hutchinson, MD, Vanessa Kerry, MD, MSc, and Sadath Sayeed, MD, JD
Guidelines are needed to help ensure that trainee, institutional, and faculty engagement in global health is ethically appropriate and mutually beneficial for all involved.
AMA J Ethics. 2019; 21(9):E759-765. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2019.759.
Changes made in 2017 to the World Medical Association Physician’s Pledge strive to keep in step with geopolitical trends by addressing patient autonomy and collegiality.
AMA J Ethics. 2019; 21(9):E796-800. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2019.796.