The AMA’s Historic Health Fraud and Alternative Medicine Collection includes images of quack devices from the early 20th century that generated oversight we now take for granted.
AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(9):E721-738. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.721.
Deborah M. Eng, MS, MA and Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE
A just culture perspective suggests that punitive responses to those who err should be reserved for those who have willfully and irremediably caused harm.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(9):E779-783. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.779.
People with mental illness or a degenerative mental disease have special protections under the law when entering into contracts or other binding documents.