Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent State of the Art and Science Aug 2019 Are Medicaid Closed Formularies Unethical? Leah Rand, DPhil and Govind Persad, JD, PhD Closed formularies can be justified when they enable spending on other socially valuable aims, but they can single out poor patients. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(8):E654-660. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.654. Case and Commentary Sep 2019 What Are Criteria for Considering Technologies’ Uses and Influences in LMICs’ Health Care Infrastructures? Rolvix Patterson and Richard Rohrer, MD Low-resource areas are heterogeneous and changing, so establishing an evidence base for decision making about technology use is an important priority. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(9):E735-741. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.735. Medicine and Society Sep 2019 Are Patients’ and Communities’ Poverty Exploited to Give Health Professions Students Learning Experiences? Harold W. Baillie, PhD and John F. McGeehan, MD Exploitation can be exacerbated when health professions students’ educational goals are overemphasized relative to patients’ and communities’ needs. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(9):E801-805. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.801. AMA Code Says Dec 2018 AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to a Physician’s Power to Name Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE The Code offers guidance about delivering a diagnosis and promoting patients’ best interests when assigning names to patients’ conditions. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(12):E1139-1142. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.1139. Medicine and Society Jan 2019 Strategies for Responding to Undocumented Immigrants With Kidney Disease Jonathan J. Suarez, MD, MSCE Regularly scheduled dialysis is not standard of care for most undocumented immigrants in the United States, so preventative care, and advocacy for it, is needed. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(1):E86-92. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.86. Art of Medicine Mar 2019 Bleary Image Manpreet Kaur Pastel and oil paint on wood are used to investigate self-preservation during processes of medical training and professionalization. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(3):E309-310. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.309. Medicine and Society Jun 2016 Ethical and Epidemiological Dimensions of Labeling Psychosis Risk Cheryl M. Corcoran, MD Although the stigma of the psychosis risk label can cause harm, the label can also confer benefit and provides an explanatory framework for symptoms. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(6):633-642. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.6.msoc2-1606. Health Law Feb 2020 Can International Patent Law Help Mitigate Cancer Inequity in LMICs? Srividya Ragavan, SJD and Amaka Vanni, PhD Inequity makes it imperative to consider how trade and patent policies influence international patients’ access to treatment and prevention. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(2):E102-111. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.102. AMA Code Says Feb 2020 AMA Policies and Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Cancer Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Andi Sirokman Redirecting focus from treatment to prevention is a global public health imperative. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(2):E112-115. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.112. Art of Medicine Feb 2020 Risks, Benefits, and Conundrums of Cancer Screening Nick Love, PhD A patient’s story represents an ethical dilemma of cancer screening: it can save lives but generates diagnostic morbidity and incurs costs. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(2):E164-165. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.164. Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Current page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
State of the Art and Science Aug 2019 Are Medicaid Closed Formularies Unethical? Leah Rand, DPhil and Govind Persad, JD, PhD Closed formularies can be justified when they enable spending on other socially valuable aims, but they can single out poor patients. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(8):E654-660. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.654.
Case and Commentary Sep 2019 What Are Criteria for Considering Technologies’ Uses and Influences in LMICs’ Health Care Infrastructures? Rolvix Patterson and Richard Rohrer, MD Low-resource areas are heterogeneous and changing, so establishing an evidence base for decision making about technology use is an important priority. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(9):E735-741. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.735.
Medicine and Society Sep 2019 Are Patients’ and Communities’ Poverty Exploited to Give Health Professions Students Learning Experiences? Harold W. Baillie, PhD and John F. McGeehan, MD Exploitation can be exacerbated when health professions students’ educational goals are overemphasized relative to patients’ and communities’ needs. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(9):E801-805. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.801.
AMA Code Says Dec 2018 AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to a Physician’s Power to Name Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE The Code offers guidance about delivering a diagnosis and promoting patients’ best interests when assigning names to patients’ conditions. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(12):E1139-1142. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.1139.
Medicine and Society Jan 2019 Strategies for Responding to Undocumented Immigrants With Kidney Disease Jonathan J. Suarez, MD, MSCE Regularly scheduled dialysis is not standard of care for most undocumented immigrants in the United States, so preventative care, and advocacy for it, is needed. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(1):E86-92. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.86.
Art of Medicine Mar 2019 Bleary Image Manpreet Kaur Pastel and oil paint on wood are used to investigate self-preservation during processes of medical training and professionalization. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(3):E309-310. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.309.
Medicine and Society Jun 2016 Ethical and Epidemiological Dimensions of Labeling Psychosis Risk Cheryl M. Corcoran, MD Although the stigma of the psychosis risk label can cause harm, the label can also confer benefit and provides an explanatory framework for symptoms. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(6):633-642. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.6.msoc2-1606.
Health Law Feb 2020 Can International Patent Law Help Mitigate Cancer Inequity in LMICs? Srividya Ragavan, SJD and Amaka Vanni, PhD Inequity makes it imperative to consider how trade and patent policies influence international patients’ access to treatment and prevention. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(2):E102-111. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.102.
AMA Code Says Feb 2020 AMA Policies and Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Cancer Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Andi Sirokman Redirecting focus from treatment to prevention is a global public health imperative. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(2):E112-115. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.112.
Art of Medicine Feb 2020 Risks, Benefits, and Conundrums of Cancer Screening Nick Love, PhD A patient’s story represents an ethical dilemma of cancer screening: it can save lives but generates diagnostic morbidity and incurs costs. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(2):E164-165. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.164.