AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Lack of training and lack of knowledge can adversely influence a patient’s clinical outcomes.

Jeffrey Bedard joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: "What Should Patients Be Told About Device Representatives’ Roles at the Point of Surgical Care?"

Interventions’ influences on decision making situate clinician performance evaluations in key ways.

When errors happen, too often clinicians are at odds with each other about how to respond to a patient or a patient’s loved ones after that patient suffers harm.

When a patient is incompetent and unrepresented, alternative strategies must be implemented to document and try to rectify an error.