Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary May 2020 How Should Adolescent Health Decision-Making Authority Be Shared? Kimberly Sawyer, MD and Abby R. Rosenberg, MD, MS, MA Shared decision making is complex with patients who are adolescents, whose relational autonomy is still emerging. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(5):E372-379. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.372. Podcast May 2020 Ethics Talk: How to Share Decision Making With People Experiencing Mental Illness Dr Laura Guidry-Grimes helps us consider whether and which decisions can be shared with people experiencing mental illnesses. Case and Commentary Feb 2020 How Should Physicians in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Regard Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems to Facilitate Smoking Cessation? Thomas E. Novotny, MD, MPH, DSc (Hon) and May C. I. van Schalkwyk, MBBS, MPH Vaping has been thought to be a safe, effective smoking cessation aid, but little evidence supports its value in mitigating tobacco use. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(2):E82-92. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.82. In the Literature Apr 2016 A Defense of “The Case for Conserving Disability” Jasmine Zahid Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s argument for disability as a sociocultural resource challenges the commonsense understanding of disability as a deficit. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):399-405. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.nlit2-1604. Policy Forum Sep 2016 Overcoming Legal Impediments to Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Marshall B. Kapp, MPH, JD The separation of dental and medical care is a medical ethics issue because it negatively impacts vulnerable populations who lack access to dental care. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):861-868. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.peer1-1609. Viewpoint Sep 2016 The Limits of Informed Consent for an Overwhelmed Patient: Clinicians’ Role in Protecting Patients and Preventing Overwhelm Johan Bester, MBChB, MPhil, Cristie M. Cole, JD, and Eric Kodish, MD Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):869-886. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.peer2-1609. Policy Forum Sep 2017 Surgery in Shackles: What Are Surgeons’ Obligations to Incarcerated Patients in the Operating Room? Sara Scarlet, MD and Elizabeth Dreesen, MD Shackling incarcerated surgery patients is unnecessary for safety and undermines patients’ trust. AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(9):939-946. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.9.pfor1-1709. Case and Commentary Jan 2005 Mrs. Douglas's Choice of Treatment for Her Husband, Option Comparison Jennifer Reenan, MD Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(1):-. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.1.ccas7c-0501. Viewpoint Jan 2007 Challenging Teenagers' Right to Refuse Treatment Arthur L. Caplan, PhD Virtual Mentor. 2007;56-61. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.1.oped1-0701. Health Law Dec 2016 The Legal Implications of Detecting Alzheimer’s Disease Earlier Joshua Preston, Jaleh McTeigue, Caitlin Opperman, Jordan Dean Scott Krieg, Mikaela Brandt-Fontaine, Alina Yasis, and Francis X. Shen, JD, PhD What are insurance, contract, and criminal law implications of detecting Alzheimer’s disease early? AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(12):1207-1217. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.12.hlaw1-1612. Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Current page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Case and Commentary May 2020 How Should Adolescent Health Decision-Making Authority Be Shared? Kimberly Sawyer, MD and Abby R. Rosenberg, MD, MS, MA Shared decision making is complex with patients who are adolescents, whose relational autonomy is still emerging. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(5):E372-379. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.372.
Podcast May 2020 Ethics Talk: How to Share Decision Making With People Experiencing Mental Illness Dr Laura Guidry-Grimes helps us consider whether and which decisions can be shared with people experiencing mental illnesses.
Case and Commentary Feb 2020 How Should Physicians in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Regard Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems to Facilitate Smoking Cessation? Thomas E. Novotny, MD, MPH, DSc (Hon) and May C. I. van Schalkwyk, MBBS, MPH Vaping has been thought to be a safe, effective smoking cessation aid, but little evidence supports its value in mitigating tobacco use. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(2):E82-92. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.82.
In the Literature Apr 2016 A Defense of “The Case for Conserving Disability” Jasmine Zahid Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s argument for disability as a sociocultural resource challenges the commonsense understanding of disability as a deficit. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):399-405. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.nlit2-1604.
Policy Forum Sep 2016 Overcoming Legal Impediments to Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Marshall B. Kapp, MPH, JD The separation of dental and medical care is a medical ethics issue because it negatively impacts vulnerable populations who lack access to dental care. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):861-868. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.peer1-1609.
Viewpoint Sep 2016 The Limits of Informed Consent for an Overwhelmed Patient: Clinicians’ Role in Protecting Patients and Preventing Overwhelm Johan Bester, MBChB, MPhil, Cristie M. Cole, JD, and Eric Kodish, MD Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):869-886. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.peer2-1609.
Policy Forum Sep 2017 Surgery in Shackles: What Are Surgeons’ Obligations to Incarcerated Patients in the Operating Room? Sara Scarlet, MD and Elizabeth Dreesen, MD Shackling incarcerated surgery patients is unnecessary for safety and undermines patients’ trust. AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(9):939-946. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.9.pfor1-1709.
Case and Commentary Jan 2005 Mrs. Douglas's Choice of Treatment for Her Husband, Option Comparison Jennifer Reenan, MD Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(1):-. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.1.ccas7c-0501.
Viewpoint Jan 2007 Challenging Teenagers' Right to Refuse Treatment Arthur L. Caplan, PhD Virtual Mentor. 2007;56-61. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.1.oped1-0701.
Health Law Dec 2016 The Legal Implications of Detecting Alzheimer’s Disease Earlier Joshua Preston, Jaleh McTeigue, Caitlin Opperman, Jordan Dean Scott Krieg, Mikaela Brandt-Fontaine, Alina Yasis, and Francis X. Shen, JD, PhD What are insurance, contract, and criminal law implications of detecting Alzheimer’s disease early? AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(12):1207-1217. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.12.hlaw1-1612.