Nubia Chong, MD, Maria Mirabela Bodic, MD, Peter Steen, MD, Ludwing Salamanca, MD, PhD, and Stephanie LeMelle, MD, MS
Paternalistic language in patients’ health records is of specific ethical concern because it emphasizes clinicians’ power and patients’ vulnerabilities and can be demeaning and traumatizing.
AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(3):E225-231. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2024.225
Moral distress arises not only from organizational constraints on moral action but also from the environmental impacts of health care and climate change.
AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(6):617-628. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.6.mhst1-1706.
Jesse Feierabend-Peters, MD, PhD and Hugh Silk, MD, MPH
Despite availability of good national oral health curricula for medical trainees, most physicians are ill-equipped to identify oral cancers or avoid unnecessary referrals.
Jesse Feierabend-Peters, MD, PhD and Hugh Silk, MD, MPH
A pesar de la disponibilidad de buenos planes de estudios nacionales sobre salud bucal para los estudiantes de medicina, la mayoría de los médicos no están preparados para identificar cánceres bucales o evitar derivaciones innecesarias.
When police officers and clinicians perceive a moral transgression committed by an agent responding to risk in the field, they are susceptible to moral injury.
Cuando los agentes de policía y los médicos perciben una transgresión moral cometida por un agente que responde al riesgo en el campo, son susceptibles de sufrir daño moral.
