Ethics Talk: Health Hazards of Cost Sharing
In this video edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Ziad Obermeyer about the potential impact on mortality of cost-sharing practices of health insurers.
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Ethics Talk: Surviving COVID Without Water and Other Utilities?
In this video edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Rianna Eckel and Jean Su about the need for a nationwide moratorium on water, electricity, and other utilities shutoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ethics Talk: Force, Authority, and Harm Minimization
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast on compassionate uses of force, behavioral response teams, and harm minimization with Aryah Shah, MD, a third-year psychiatry resident at Brigham…
Why We Need to Stop Labeling Behaviors Influencing a Person’s Weight Ideal or Healthy
This commentary argues that financial incentives for employees who meet body mass index requirements reinforce healthism, a false and oppressive ideology. Healthism is the view that personal health is the vehicle of well-being and that health is achieved by taking…
What Should Count as Best Practices of Forensic Medical and Psychological Evaluations for Children Seeking Asylum?
The process of being granted asylum is complex, often taking months and years. Asylum seekers face high risk of being denied asylum in the United States. As medical and psychological evaluations assist in achieving successful asylum outcomes, human rights asylum…
Should Clinicians Be Activists?
Physicians are ethically bound to respond to undocumented, underinsured, and uninsured patients’ health needs, even those demanding complex, expensive interventions, such as organ transplantation. A social medicine skill set of structural competency, allyship, accompaniment, and activism is required to best…
Recognizing and Dismantling Raciolinguistic Hierarchies in Latinx Health
Latinx individuals represent a linguistically and racially diverse, growing US patient population. Raciolinguistics considers intersections of language and race, prioritizes lived experiences of non English speakers, and can help clinicians more deftly conceptualize heterogeneity and complexity in Latinx health experiences….
Ethics Talk: Publishing Science and Accelerating Discovery During and After COVID-19
In this video edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Drs Stefano Bertozzi and Jeffrey Mackie-Mason about sustainable models of scientific publishing that advance biomedical knowledge and discovery.
LGH REGULAR SCHEDULED SERIES
Lowell General Hospital RSS Programs are planned/presented by LGH medical staff and targets the same audience and offered (ex. weekly, monthly, bimonthly and/or quarterly. Due to the sensitive of the material presented during RSS Programs, these are for LGH Medical…
LGH ADULT MEDICINE AND PEDIATRIC GRAND ROUNDS
Lowell General Hospital Grand Rounds is a weekly seminar series to support the academic environment of the Lowell General Hospital Medical Staff. Topics and speakers are selected to provide faculty and trainees with up-to-date knowledge about timely issues in medicine…
