Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary Jul 2021 When Symptoms Aren’t Visible or Measurable, How Should Disability Be Assessed? Cerise L. Glenn, PhD Patients writing daily journal briefs about work-related activities and pain can help clinicians help them. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E514-518. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.514. Case and Commentary Jul 2021 A Womanist Approach to Caring for Patients With Empirically Unverifiable Symptoms Annette Madlock Gatison, PhD Hyperfocus on measurability can result in evidentiary overreliance and undervaluation of patients’ experience narratives. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E519-523. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.519. Medicine and Society Jul 2021 Questioning Biomedicine’s Privileging of Disease and Measurability Camille Kroll, MA Adhering too strictly to biomedical thinking about diagnosis can prevent clinicians from empathically engaging with patients and helping them navigate their illness experiences. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E537-541. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.537. Medicine and Society Jul 2021 Invisibility of “Gender Dysphoria” Nicolle K. Strand, JD, MBE and Nora L. Jones, PhD Fostering transgender patients’ sense of agency should be a clinical and ethical priority. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E557-562. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.557. Art of Medicine Jul 2021 Wayfinding Brent R. Carr, MD This charcoal gesture drawing, inspired by a mid-adolescent nonbinary patient, investigates a caregiver’s and patient’s journey from despair to hope. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E582-583. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.582. Case and Commentary Oct 2021 When Should Neuroendovascular Care for Patients With Acute Stroke Be Palliative? Michael J. Young, MD, MPhil, Robert W. Regenhardt, MD, PhD, Leonard L. Sokol, MD, and Thabele M. Leslie-Mazwi, MD For some patients whose survival is extended by disease-modifying interventions, little guidance about clinical and ethical complexities exist. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E783-793. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.783. AMA Code Says Oct 2021 AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Palliative Surgical Care Shreya Budhiraja Guidance about sedation to unconsciousness and medically ineffective interventions can be applied to surgical palliation. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E811-813. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.811. Case and Commentary Nov 2020 What Is an Ethically Informed Approach to Managing Patient Safety Risk During Discharge Planning? John C. West, JD, MA Patients leaving against medical advice draw attention to intersections of tort law, federal and state regulations, and clinical ethics. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(11):E919-923. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.919. AMA Code Says Nov 2020 AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Risk Management Ethics Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE and Deborah M. Eng, MS, MA Ethical dimensions of risk management are illuminated in AMA Code content on discharge planning. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(11):E940-944. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.940. Health Law Nov 2020 How Hospital Leaders and Risk Managers Can Nurture Ethics-Driven Lawyering Norine A. McGrath, MD, Evan G. DeRenzo, PhD, John K. Kilcullen, MD, JD, MPH, and Jack Schwartz, JD Hospital lawyers’ practices shape risk management operations, influence clinicians’ morale, and affect patient care. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(11):E933-939. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.933. Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Current page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Case and Commentary Jul 2021 When Symptoms Aren’t Visible or Measurable, How Should Disability Be Assessed? Cerise L. Glenn, PhD Patients writing daily journal briefs about work-related activities and pain can help clinicians help them. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E514-518. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.514.
Case and Commentary Jul 2021 A Womanist Approach to Caring for Patients With Empirically Unverifiable Symptoms Annette Madlock Gatison, PhD Hyperfocus on measurability can result in evidentiary overreliance and undervaluation of patients’ experience narratives. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E519-523. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.519.
Medicine and Society Jul 2021 Questioning Biomedicine’s Privileging of Disease and Measurability Camille Kroll, MA Adhering too strictly to biomedical thinking about diagnosis can prevent clinicians from empathically engaging with patients and helping them navigate their illness experiences. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E537-541. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.537.
Medicine and Society Jul 2021 Invisibility of “Gender Dysphoria” Nicolle K. Strand, JD, MBE and Nora L. Jones, PhD Fostering transgender patients’ sense of agency should be a clinical and ethical priority. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E557-562. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.557.
Art of Medicine Jul 2021 Wayfinding Brent R. Carr, MD This charcoal gesture drawing, inspired by a mid-adolescent nonbinary patient, investigates a caregiver’s and patient’s journey from despair to hope. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E582-583. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.582.
Case and Commentary Oct 2021 When Should Neuroendovascular Care for Patients With Acute Stroke Be Palliative? Michael J. Young, MD, MPhil, Robert W. Regenhardt, MD, PhD, Leonard L. Sokol, MD, and Thabele M. Leslie-Mazwi, MD For some patients whose survival is extended by disease-modifying interventions, little guidance about clinical and ethical complexities exist. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E783-793. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.783.
AMA Code Says Oct 2021 AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Palliative Surgical Care Shreya Budhiraja Guidance about sedation to unconsciousness and medically ineffective interventions can be applied to surgical palliation. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E811-813. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.811.
Case and Commentary Nov 2020 What Is an Ethically Informed Approach to Managing Patient Safety Risk During Discharge Planning? John C. West, JD, MA Patients leaving against medical advice draw attention to intersections of tort law, federal and state regulations, and clinical ethics. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(11):E919-923. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.919.
AMA Code Says Nov 2020 AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Risk Management Ethics Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE and Deborah M. Eng, MS, MA Ethical dimensions of risk management are illuminated in AMA Code content on discharge planning. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(11):E940-944. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.940.
Health Law Nov 2020 How Hospital Leaders and Risk Managers Can Nurture Ethics-Driven Lawyering Norine A. McGrath, MD, Evan G. DeRenzo, PhD, John K. Kilcullen, MD, JD, MPH, and Jack Schwartz, JD Hospital lawyers’ practices shape risk management operations, influence clinicians’ morale, and affect patient care. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(11):E933-939. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.933.