AMA Journal of Ethics

Guidance about sedation to unconsciousness and medically ineffective interventions can be applied to surgical palliation.

Clinician-family communication in surgical intensive care units should focus on reducing value incongruence and nonbeneficial operations.

Robert Ledbetter and Dr Buddy Marterre join Ethics Talk to discuss their article: “Where’s the Value in Preoperative Covenants Between Surgeons and Patients?”

Patients’ perceptions of how much input they have in making health decisions influence therapeutic alliance and outcomes.

Fostering transgender patients’ sense of agency should be a clinical and ethical priority.

Public and self-stigma negatively influence patients’ quality of life, employment, and housing opportunities.

Dr Nat Mulkey and Dr Carl G. Streed Jr join Ethics Talk to discuss their article coauthored with Dr Barbara M. Chubak, "A Call to Update Standard of Care for Children With Differences in Sex Development."

Hyperfocus on measurability can result in evidentiary overreliance and undervaluation of patients’ experience narratives.

Some clinicians cite absence of long-term data to justify not fully deferring surgery for children with DSD, and legal restrictions of early procedures are also at play.