Diagnosis/Errors Policy Forum Feb 2023 What the COVID-19 Pandemic Teaches Us About Pediatric Iatrogenic Risk Katherine Pumphrey, MD, MHA and Jessica Hart, MD, MHQS Pediatricians have been forced to navigate diagnostic uncertainty, hospital closures, limited staffing, and new infection control guidelines. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(2):E130-132. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.130. Medicine and Society Dec 2022 For Clinicians to Do Less, Organizations Must Do More Pallavi Juneja, MD Medicine has been defined by doing, but bias, error, and burnout are potential consequences of speed and constant activity. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(12):E1141-1148. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.1141. Medicine and Society Aug 2022 Clinicians’ Racial Biases as Pathways to Iatrogenic Harms for Black People Keisha Ray, PhD Clinicians’ racial biases undermine the quality of Black persons’ health care experiences and pave a reliable path to health care-induced harm. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(8):E768-772. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.768. Medicine and Society Mar 2022 Why Equitable Access to Vaginal Birth Requires Abolition of Race-Based Medicine Nicholas Rubashkin, MD, PhD More cesarean deliveries among Black and Hispanic women in the United States has long demonstrated racial inequity in obstetrical care. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(3):E233-238. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.233. Medicine and Society Mar 2022 Por qué el acceso equitativo al parto vaginal requiere la eliminación de la medicina racial Nicholas Rubashkin, MD, PhD AMA J Ethics. 2022;E233-238. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.233. Case and Commentary Jul 2021 When Symptoms Aren’t Visible or Measurable, How Should Disability Be Assessed? Cerise L. Glenn, PhD Patients writing daily journal briefs about work-related activities and pain can help clinicians help them. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E514-518. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.514. Case and Commentary Jul 2021 A Womanist Approach to Caring for Patients With Empirically Unverifiable Symptoms Annette Madlock Gatison, PhD Hyperfocus on measurability can result in evidentiary overreliance and undervaluation of patients’ experience narratives. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E519-523. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.519. Medicine and Society Jul 2021 Questioning Biomedicine’s Privileging of Disease and Measurability Camille Kroll, MA Adhering too strictly to biomedical thinking about diagnosis can prevent clinicians from empathically engaging with patients and helping them navigate their illness experiences. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E537-541. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.537. 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. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Next page ›› Next Last page Last »
Policy Forum Feb 2023 What the COVID-19 Pandemic Teaches Us About Pediatric Iatrogenic Risk Katherine Pumphrey, MD, MHA and Jessica Hart, MD, MHQS Pediatricians have been forced to navigate diagnostic uncertainty, hospital closures, limited staffing, and new infection control guidelines. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(2):E130-132. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.130.
Medicine and Society Dec 2022 For Clinicians to Do Less, Organizations Must Do More Pallavi Juneja, MD Medicine has been defined by doing, but bias, error, and burnout are potential consequences of speed and constant activity. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(12):E1141-1148. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.1141.
Medicine and Society Aug 2022 Clinicians’ Racial Biases as Pathways to Iatrogenic Harms for Black People Keisha Ray, PhD Clinicians’ racial biases undermine the quality of Black persons’ health care experiences and pave a reliable path to health care-induced harm. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(8):E768-772. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.768.
Medicine and Society Mar 2022 Why Equitable Access to Vaginal Birth Requires Abolition of Race-Based Medicine Nicholas Rubashkin, MD, PhD More cesarean deliveries among Black and Hispanic women in the United States has long demonstrated racial inequity in obstetrical care. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(3):E233-238. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.233.
Medicine and Society Mar 2022 Por qué el acceso equitativo al parto vaginal requiere la eliminación de la medicina racial Nicholas Rubashkin, MD, PhD AMA J Ethics. 2022;E233-238. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.233.
Case and Commentary Jul 2021 When Symptoms Aren’t Visible or Measurable, How Should Disability Be Assessed? Cerise L. Glenn, PhD Patients writing daily journal briefs about work-related activities and pain can help clinicians help them. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E514-518. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.514.
Case and Commentary Jul 2021 A Womanist Approach to Caring for Patients With Empirically Unverifiable Symptoms Annette Madlock Gatison, PhD Hyperfocus on measurability can result in evidentiary overreliance and undervaluation of patients’ experience narratives. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E519-523. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.519.
Medicine and Society Jul 2021 Questioning Biomedicine’s Privileging of Disease and Measurability Camille Kroll, MA Adhering too strictly to biomedical thinking about diagnosis can prevent clinicians from empathically engaging with patients and helping them navigate their illness experiences. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E537-541. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.537.
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.
