Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Medical Education Dec 2002 Physicians as Agents of the State Jeremy Spevick Virtual Mentor. 2002;4(12):363-366. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2002.4.12.medu1-0212. Case and Commentary Dec 2020 What Should We Do When Families Refuse Testing for Brain Death? Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, Wynne Morrison, MD, MBE, and Matthew Kirschen, MD, PhD Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E986-994. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.986. 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. Health Law Dec 2020 Reexamining the Flawed Legal Basis of the “Dead Donor Rule” as a Foundation for Organ Donation Policy Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE The DDR requires organ donors to be dead according to legal criteria prior to organ removal, and it’s rooted in fears of civil and criminal liability. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1019-1024. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1019. Policy Forum Dec 2020 Guidance for Physicians Who Wish to Influence Policy Development on Determination of Death by Neurologic Criteria Michael A. Rubin, MD, MA Lobbying, maintaining diagnostic skill, participating in national societies, and contributing to robust discourse can influence practice and policy. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1033-1037. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1033. 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. Medicine and Society Dec 2020 What Does the Public Need to Know About Brain Death? Katharina M. Busl, MD, MS Public awareness of brain death is based largely on inaccurate media representations. It’s no wonder so few of us understand brain death. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1047-1054. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1047. Medicine and Society Dec 2020 Death’s Troubled Relationship With the Law Brendan Parent, JD and Angela Turi Death’s legal definition must be responsive to advances in technology, and it must delineate between life and death. Knowing where to draw the line is difficult. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1055-1061. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1055. Case and Commentary Jan 2021 How Should Clinicians’ Involvement in the Holocaust Inform Contemporary Responsibilities to Protect Public Safety? Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH Perils of physicians intentionally harming individuals in errant attempts to strengthen a community have been illuminated by the Holocaust. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E6-11. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.6. Medical Education Jan 2021 Teaching Health Professions Students About the Holocaust William S. Silvers, MD, Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH, Mark A. Levine, MD, and Meleah Himber, MEd One health professions school views the Holocaust as fundamental content knowledge in modern health care ethics, but teaching it is difficult. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E26-30. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.26. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Medical Education Dec 2002 Physicians as Agents of the State Jeremy Spevick Virtual Mentor. 2002;4(12):363-366. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2002.4.12.medu1-0212.
Case and Commentary Dec 2020 What Should We Do When Families Refuse Testing for Brain Death? Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, Wynne Morrison, MD, MBE, and Matthew Kirschen, MD, PhD Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E986-994. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.986.
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.
Health Law Dec 2020 Reexamining the Flawed Legal Basis of the “Dead Donor Rule” as a Foundation for Organ Donation Policy Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE The DDR requires organ donors to be dead according to legal criteria prior to organ removal, and it’s rooted in fears of civil and criminal liability. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1019-1024. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1019.
Policy Forum Dec 2020 Guidance for Physicians Who Wish to Influence Policy Development on Determination of Death by Neurologic Criteria Michael A. Rubin, MD, MA Lobbying, maintaining diagnostic skill, participating in national societies, and contributing to robust discourse can influence practice and policy. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1033-1037. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1033.
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.
Medicine and Society Dec 2020 What Does the Public Need to Know About Brain Death? Katharina M. Busl, MD, MS Public awareness of brain death is based largely on inaccurate media representations. It’s no wonder so few of us understand brain death. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1047-1054. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1047.
Medicine and Society Dec 2020 Death’s Troubled Relationship With the Law Brendan Parent, JD and Angela Turi Death’s legal definition must be responsive to advances in technology, and it must delineate between life and death. Knowing where to draw the line is difficult. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1055-1061. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1055.
Case and Commentary Jan 2021 How Should Clinicians’ Involvement in the Holocaust Inform Contemporary Responsibilities to Protect Public Safety? Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH Perils of physicians intentionally harming individuals in errant attempts to strengthen a community have been illuminated by the Holocaust. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E6-11. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.6.
Medical Education Jan 2021 Teaching Health Professions Students About the Holocaust William S. Silvers, MD, Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH, Mark A. Levine, MD, and Meleah Himber, MEd One health professions school views the Holocaust as fundamental content knowledge in modern health care ethics, but teaching it is difficult. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E26-30. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.26.