When responding to an ad for a job caring for patient-detainees along the US southern border, applicants should anticipate the need to navigate dual loyalties.
AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(1):E12-17. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.12.
Force feeding, unnecessary x-rays, misusing health information, and discharging unstable patients are classic dual-loyalty dilemmas reminiscent of the Holocaust.
AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(1):E38-45. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.38.
Connections between racism and dehumanization have immediate, lethal, deleterious, longer-term consequences. Lessons from Nazi eugenics and human experimentation still apply.
AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(1):E64-69. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.64.
Some refugees’ illness experiences preclude them from testifying and accurately representing their own interests during asylum adjudication proceedings.
AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(2):E132-139. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.132.
Clinicians must avoid violating professional ethical principles and patients’ legal rights and they may not ever discriminate. So, what does that mean in practice?
AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(3):229-236. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.3.ecas4-1603.
The opioid crisis, maternal death, and COVID-19 underscore trust as foundational to public health and call for redefinition of what it means to be a US clinician.
AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(3):E265-270. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.265.