Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent 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. 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. Case and Commentary May 2005 Patau Syndrome and Perinatal Decision Making, Commentary 1 Patrick D. Guinan, MD Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(5):336-341. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.5.ccas1-0505. Case and Commentary May 2005 Patau Syndrome and Perinatal Decision Making, Commentary 2 Malika Haque, MD Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(5):336-341. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.5.ccas1-0505. Health Law May 2005 When a Parent's Religious Belief Endangers Her Unborn Child Faith Lagay, PhD Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(5):375-378. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.5.hlaw1-0505. Medicine and Society May 2005 A Faith-Based Clinic in Chicago Meme Wang, MPH Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(5):382-386. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.5.msoc1-0505. Viewpoint Oct 2009 Physicians and Patients’ Spirituality: The Perennial Collaboration of Medicine and Religion Stephen G. Post, PhD Virtual Mentor. 2009;11(10):804-815. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2009.11.10.oped1-0910. Policy Forum Mar 2018 Who Counts? What Counts? Place and the Limits of Perinatal Mortality Measures Claire Wendland, MD, PhD Perinatal mortality indicators like the maternal mortality ratio mask social determinants of health and undermine reproductive justice. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(3):278-287. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.3.pfor2-1803. AMA Code Says Mar 2012 AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions on Organ Transplantation AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs The AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinions on organ transplantation. Virtual Mentor. 2012;14(3):204-214. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.3.coet1-1203. Viewpoint Apr 2010 A Call for Collaborative Action against America’s Greatest Health Threat Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH All of us who are pursuing solutions to the obesity epidemic face clinical, ethical, and regulatory challenges. First among them is the significant role of individual lifestyle and behavior choices in causing obesity. Virtual Mentor. 2010;12(4):327-330. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2010.12.4.oped1-1004. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next › Last page Last »
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.
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.
Case and Commentary May 2005 Patau Syndrome and Perinatal Decision Making, Commentary 1 Patrick D. Guinan, MD Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(5):336-341. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.5.ccas1-0505.
Case and Commentary May 2005 Patau Syndrome and Perinatal Decision Making, Commentary 2 Malika Haque, MD Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(5):336-341. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.5.ccas1-0505.
Health Law May 2005 When a Parent's Religious Belief Endangers Her Unborn Child Faith Lagay, PhD Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(5):375-378. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.5.hlaw1-0505.
Medicine and Society May 2005 A Faith-Based Clinic in Chicago Meme Wang, MPH Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(5):382-386. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.5.msoc1-0505.
Viewpoint Oct 2009 Physicians and Patients’ Spirituality: The Perennial Collaboration of Medicine and Religion Stephen G. Post, PhD Virtual Mentor. 2009;11(10):804-815. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2009.11.10.oped1-0910.
Policy Forum Mar 2018 Who Counts? What Counts? Place and the Limits of Perinatal Mortality Measures Claire Wendland, MD, PhD Perinatal mortality indicators like the maternal mortality ratio mask social determinants of health and undermine reproductive justice. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(3):278-287. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.3.pfor2-1803.
AMA Code Says Mar 2012 AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions on Organ Transplantation AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs The AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinions on organ transplantation. Virtual Mentor. 2012;14(3):204-214. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.3.coet1-1203.
Viewpoint Apr 2010 A Call for Collaborative Action against America’s Greatest Health Threat Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH All of us who are pursuing solutions to the obesity epidemic face clinical, ethical, and regulatory challenges. First among them is the significant role of individual lifestyle and behavior choices in causing obesity. Virtual Mentor. 2010;12(4):327-330. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2010.12.4.oped1-1004.