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.
Wendy E. Parmet, JD and Claudia E. Haupt, PhD, JSD
Clinicians using governing authority to make public health policy are ethically obliged to draw upon scientific and clinical information that accords professional standards.
AMA J Ethics. 2023; 25(3):E194-199. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.194.
Spread of health misinformation by health professionals who also hold government positions represents a long-standing problem exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
AMA J Ethics. 2023; 25(3):E210-218. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.210.
Isabelle Freiling, PhD, Nicole M. Krause, MA, and Dietram A. Scheufele, PhD
Misinformation is an urgent new problem, so health professions communities need solutions as much as they need to be wary of ethical pitfalls of rushed interventions.
AMA J Ethics. 2023; 25(3):E228-237. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.228.
Annika Brakebill, A. Mark Fendrick, MD, and Jeffrey T. Kullgren, MD, MS, MPH
These key steps are ones health sector stakeholders should take to help patients and clinicians use pricing information to inform health decision making.
AMA J Ethics. 2022; 24(11):E1034-1039. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.1034.
Dr Jing Li joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Robert Tyler Braun, Sophia Kakarala, and Dr Holly G. Prigerson: “How Should Cost-Informed Goals of Care Decisions Be Facilitated at Life’s End?”
Watie White joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Regina Idoate, Aislinn C. Rookwood, Sophia A. Quintero, Shelby Larson, Dr Arturo Aceves, and Dr Keyonna M. King: “Lead Toxicity and Environmental Health Justice Stories in Black and White Woodcut Portraits.”