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. Medical Education Jan 2021 How Should Students Learn About Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals’ Roles in the Holocaust? Robert Baker, PhD The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E31-37. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.31. Medicine and Society Jan 2021 Teaching Hard Truths About Medicine and the Holocaust Tessa Chelouche, MD The Holocaust differs from other instances of mass murder in that it was medically sanctioned genocide. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E59-63. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.59. Viewpoint Dec 2019 Genome Editing, Ethics, and Politics Isabel Gabel, PhD and Jonathan Moreno, PhD Genome editing raises old questions, but CRISPR arose in a political landscape that vastly differs from the early aughts. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(12):E1105-1110. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.1105. Health Law Mar 2020 Which Legal Approaches Help Limit Harms to Patients From Clinicians’ Conscience-Based Refusals? Rachel Kogan, JD, Katherine L. Kraschel, JD, and Claudia E. Haupt, PhD, JSD When a clinician refuses to do a procedure consistent with standard of care for a patient, legal resources can be helpful. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E209-216. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.209. Medicine and Society Mar 2020 How Should We Judge Whether and When Mission Statements Are Ethically Deployed? Kellie E. Schueler and Debra B. Stulberg, MD Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E239-247. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.239. Letter to the Editor Jan 2023 Response to “What Should Clinicians and Patients Know About the Clinical Gaze, Disability, and Iatrogenic Harm When Making Decisions?” Novel Reasons for Diversification of Health Care Vishruth M. Nagam Clinical needs of patients with disabilities are seen with the “medical gaze,” a depersonalized lens of evidence-based medicine and of presumed objectivity. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(1):E85-87. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.85. Podcast Nov 2022 Ethics Talk Series on US Abortion Care After Dobbs, Episode 3/5: How Do We Teach Evidence-Based Standard of Care Now? Dr Jody Steinauer joins Ethics Talk to discuss possible responses to what the Dobbs decision demands of clinician-teachers. Viewpoint Sep 2022 Why the Post-Roe Era Requires Protecting Conscientious Provision as We Protect Conscientious Refusal in Health Care Isa Ryan, MD, MSc, Ashish Premkumar, MD, and Katie Watson, JD Extraordinary changes to the legal landscape of abortion care require reevaluating health professionals’ appropriation of conscience. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(9):E906-912. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.906. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 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.
Medical Education Jan 2021 How Should Students Learn About Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals’ Roles in the Holocaust? Robert Baker, PhD The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E31-37. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.31.
Medicine and Society Jan 2021 Teaching Hard Truths About Medicine and the Holocaust Tessa Chelouche, MD The Holocaust differs from other instances of mass murder in that it was medically sanctioned genocide. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E59-63. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.59.
Viewpoint Dec 2019 Genome Editing, Ethics, and Politics Isabel Gabel, PhD and Jonathan Moreno, PhD Genome editing raises old questions, but CRISPR arose in a political landscape that vastly differs from the early aughts. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(12):E1105-1110. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.1105.
Health Law Mar 2020 Which Legal Approaches Help Limit Harms to Patients From Clinicians’ Conscience-Based Refusals? Rachel Kogan, JD, Katherine L. Kraschel, JD, and Claudia E. Haupt, PhD, JSD When a clinician refuses to do a procedure consistent with standard of care for a patient, legal resources can be helpful. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E209-216. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.209.
Medicine and Society Mar 2020 How Should We Judge Whether and When Mission Statements Are Ethically Deployed? Kellie E. Schueler and Debra B. Stulberg, MD Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E239-247. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.239.
Letter to the Editor Jan 2023 Response to “What Should Clinicians and Patients Know About the Clinical Gaze, Disability, and Iatrogenic Harm When Making Decisions?” Novel Reasons for Diversification of Health Care Vishruth M. Nagam Clinical needs of patients with disabilities are seen with the “medical gaze,” a depersonalized lens of evidence-based medicine and of presumed objectivity. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(1):E85-87. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.85.
Podcast Nov 2022 Ethics Talk Series on US Abortion Care After Dobbs, Episode 3/5: How Do We Teach Evidence-Based Standard of Care Now? Dr Jody Steinauer joins Ethics Talk to discuss possible responses to what the Dobbs decision demands of clinician-teachers.
Viewpoint Sep 2022 Why the Post-Roe Era Requires Protecting Conscientious Provision as We Protect Conscientious Refusal in Health Care Isa Ryan, MD, MSc, Ashish Premkumar, MD, and Katie Watson, JD Extraordinary changes to the legal landscape of abortion care require reevaluating health professionals’ appropriation of conscience. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(9):E906-912. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.906.