Shilpa Darivemula, MD, MS, Sriya Bhumi, MBA, and Jenn Pamela Chowdhury, MS
Indian classical dance illuminates a collaborative, narrative approach to interrogating ethnic and racial biases in clinical jargon and their roles in inequitable health care practice.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(3):E276-280. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.276.
Physicians have a responsibility to assess elderly patients for conditions that could affect their ability to drive safely and to be familiar with state laws that govern physician duty to report impaired drivers.
Physicians have a professional obligation and, in many states, a legal duty to report drivers whose functional or cognitive impairments may pose a safety hazard.
An examination of some of the factors that can weaken the therapeutic nature of the patient-physician relationship and how a physician can resolve them in the patient's best interest.