Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Medical Education Dec 2020 How Educators Can Help Prevent False Brain Death Diagnoses Farah Fourcand, MD and Diana M. Barratt, MD, MPH For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1010-1018. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1010. Policy Forum Dec 2020 What Should We Do About the Mismatch Between Legal Criteria for Death and How Brain Death Is Diagnosed? Nathaniel M. Robbins, MD and James L. Bernat, MD Criteria in statutes and tests used to diagnose brain death don’t always jibe, and this can undermine public trust in death pronouncements. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1038-1046. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1038. Health Law Mar 2020 Which Legal Approaches Help Limit Harms to Patients From Clinicians’ Conscience-Based Refusals? Rachel Kogan, JD, Katherine L. Kraschel, JD, and Claudia E. Haupt, PhD, JSD When a clinician refuses to do a procedure consistent with standard of care for a patient, legal resources can be helpful. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E209-216. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.209. Medicine and Society Mar 2020 How Should We Judge Whether and When Mission Statements Are Ethically Deployed? Kellie E. Schueler and Debra B. Stulberg, MD Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E239-247. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.239. Health Law Jun 2023 What’s Wrong With Criminalizing Gender-Affirming Care of Transgender Adolescents? Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE This article canvasses states’ legal prohibitions and challenges to them and considers consequences for clinicians and patients. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(6):E414-420. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.414. Health Law Mar 2005 Must Doctors Report Underage Sex as Abuse? Kate Karas Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(3):234-238. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.3.hlaw1-0503. Policy Forum Mar 2005 Confidentiality and Consent in Adolescent Substance Abuse: An Update Melissa Weddle, MD, MPH and Patricia K. Kokotailo, MD, MPH Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(3):239-243. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.3.pfor1-0503. Policy Forum Oct 2004 Should Surgery Have an FDA? Robert S. Rhodes, MD Virtual Mentor. 2004;6(10):459-461. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2004.6.10.pfor2-0410. Medicine and Society Oct 2012 Adolescents’ Right to Consent to Reproductive Medical Care: Balancing Respect for Families with Public Health Goals Margaret Moon, MD, MPH Preventing bad outcomes for teens and their offspring was the impetus behind confidential care for reproductive health. Requiring parental involvement created an obstacle to the provision of necessary care. Virtual Mentor. 2012;14(10):805-808. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.10.msoc1-1210. Medical Education Jun 2014 Exploring Matters of Race through Dialogue in the University of Michigan Medical School’s Longitudinal Case Studies Program Katherine Bakke, Kartik Sidhar, and Arno K. Kumagai, MD Dialogue-based learning can help medical students recognize, acknowledge, and overcome their biases. Virtual Mentor. 2014;16(6):442-449. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.6.medu1-1406. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next › Last page Last »
Medical Education Dec 2020 How Educators Can Help Prevent False Brain Death Diagnoses Farah Fourcand, MD and Diana M. Barratt, MD, MPH For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1010-1018. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1010.
Policy Forum Dec 2020 What Should We Do About the Mismatch Between Legal Criteria for Death and How Brain Death Is Diagnosed? Nathaniel M. Robbins, MD and James L. Bernat, MD Criteria in statutes and tests used to diagnose brain death don’t always jibe, and this can undermine public trust in death pronouncements. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1038-1046. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1038.
Health Law Mar 2020 Which Legal Approaches Help Limit Harms to Patients From Clinicians’ Conscience-Based Refusals? Rachel Kogan, JD, Katherine L. Kraschel, JD, and Claudia E. Haupt, PhD, JSD When a clinician refuses to do a procedure consistent with standard of care for a patient, legal resources can be helpful. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E209-216. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.209.
Medicine and Society Mar 2020 How Should We Judge Whether and When Mission Statements Are Ethically Deployed? Kellie E. Schueler and Debra B. Stulberg, MD Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E239-247. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.239.
Health Law Jun 2023 What’s Wrong With Criminalizing Gender-Affirming Care of Transgender Adolescents? Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE This article canvasses states’ legal prohibitions and challenges to them and considers consequences for clinicians and patients. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(6):E414-420. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.414.
Health Law Mar 2005 Must Doctors Report Underage Sex as Abuse? Kate Karas Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(3):234-238. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.3.hlaw1-0503.
Policy Forum Mar 2005 Confidentiality and Consent in Adolescent Substance Abuse: An Update Melissa Weddle, MD, MPH and Patricia K. Kokotailo, MD, MPH Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(3):239-243. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.3.pfor1-0503.
Policy Forum Oct 2004 Should Surgery Have an FDA? Robert S. Rhodes, MD Virtual Mentor. 2004;6(10):459-461. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2004.6.10.pfor2-0410.
Medicine and Society Oct 2012 Adolescents’ Right to Consent to Reproductive Medical Care: Balancing Respect for Families with Public Health Goals Margaret Moon, MD, MPH Preventing bad outcomes for teens and their offspring was the impetus behind confidential care for reproductive health. Requiring parental involvement created an obstacle to the provision of necessary care. Virtual Mentor. 2012;14(10):805-808. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.10.msoc1-1210.
Medical Education Jun 2014 Exploring Matters of Race through Dialogue in the University of Michigan Medical School’s Longitudinal Case Studies Program Katherine Bakke, Kartik Sidhar, and Arno K. Kumagai, MD Dialogue-based learning can help medical students recognize, acknowledge, and overcome their biases. Virtual Mentor. 2014;16(6):442-449. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.6.medu1-1406.