The AAP’s guidelines on lipid screening for children raise concerns about the fundamental purpose of prevention and its role in balancing individual autonomy with the benefits of society at large.
Given the well-established correlation across cultures between poverty and unhealthy lifestyles, can it be just to hold individuals responsible for choices typical of their socioeconomic sector? Aren’t patient-responsibility programs simply conspiracies to shrink benefits to the poor?
Undocumented patients in the United States with end-stage renal disease receive “compassionate” dialysis. Such patients oscillate between being marginally well and “ill enough” to receive dialysis while clinicians wrestle with complicity in a system that both offers and withholds life-saving therapy.
AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(8):E778-779. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2018.778.
Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD, Laura B. Dunn, MD, and Laura Weiss Roberts, MD, MA
Calibrating a machine learning model with data from a local setting is key to predicting psychosis outcomes. Clinicians also need to understand an algorithm’s limitations and disclose clinically and ethically relevant information to patients.
AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(9):E804-811. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2018.804.
Pathologists should work cooperatively with clinicians and provide guidance about appropriate testing to uphold the medical ethics principle of justice.
AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(8):793-799. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.8.ecas5-1608.
Amy Scharf(理学硕士), Louis Voigt(医学博士), Santosha Vardhana(医学博士、哲学博士), Konstantina Matsoukas(图书情报硕士), Lisa M. Wall(哲学博士、注册护士、临床护理专家、高级肿瘤临床护理专家、已获认证的医疗保健伦理顾问), Maria Arevalo(注册护士、肿瘤专科护士), and Lisa C. Diamond(医学博士、公共卫生硕士)
AMA J Ethics. 2021;E97-108. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.97.
Amy Schart, MS, Louis Voigt, MD, Santosha Vardhana, MD, PhD, Konstantina Matsoukas, MLIS, Lisa M. Wall, PhD, RN, CNS, AOCNS, HEC-C, María Arévalo, RN, OCN, and Lisa C. Diamond, MD, MPH
AMA J Ethics. 2021;E97-108. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.97.