Caring for Poor and Vulnerable Populations

Caring for Poor and Vulnerable Populations

Expanding MLPs’ positive health impact requires secure funding.

MLPs in the VHA help minimize ethical tensions that tend to come up when diagnosing and documenting disability.

AMA Code opinions about collaborative care, health inequity, financial barriers to health care access, and physician responsibilities for safe patient discharge from health care facilities can apply to MLPs.

Dr Cynthia Geppert joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Should MLP Clinicians and Attorneys Help Veterans Secure Disability Benefits When Health Records Documentation Is Insufficient?”

Keegan D. Warren joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr William M. Sage: “Why MLP Legal Care Should Be Financed as Health Care.”

Readers are referred to an article by B. Pécoul et al in a 1999 issue of JAMA to discuss what ethical duties developed countries have to ensure that essential drugs are accessible to patients in poor countries.

A U.S. physician relates the culture shock he is experiencing working as an area medical officer in Eastern Africa for the U.S. Peace Corps in his latest online journal entry.

A paradigm shift in circadian science is underway, exposing ethical tensions from a legacy of pervasive neglect of circadian disorders.