This article draws a parallel between ethical reasons why people alive today have obligations to members of future generations and ethical reasons why physicians have obligations, besides helping improve patients’ quality of life, to help some patients confront their own…
Is there an important ethical difference between a global catastrophe that causes human extinction and one that does not? This commentary on a case introduces 3 approachesóequivalence, further-loss, and pro-extinctionistóin responding to this question. In particular, focus is placed on…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about nuclear proliferation and planetary health. The featured guests are Joseph Hodgkin, MD, an attending hospitalist physician at Massachusetts General Hospital…
This case report describes a man in his 40s who presented to the emergency department with reported palpitation and breathlessness for the preceding 2 hours.
This toolkit explains how to implement team-based pre-visit planning to prepare for upcoming appointments, optimize the value of each appointment for both patients and physicians, and reduce the number of follow-up patient portal messages and phone calls.
Importance Experiences of marginalization by gender minority people may predispose them to poorer mental health outcomes than their cisgender peers. Understanding mental health conditions in transgender (trans) and nonbinary people is an essential step in addressing potential inequities in outcome for…
This JAMA Insights discusses the evidence related to the US Surgeon General’s Advisory on alcohol and cancer risk.
This case report describes a 46-year-old goat farmer with a 2-week history of a painful nodule on the dorsal aspect of his right fifth finger.
A 78-year-old man with a history of nonmelanoma skin cancers presented with left-sided upper and lower facial weakness. What is your diagnosis?
Importance The safety and efficacy of intravenous thrombolytics beyond 4.5 hours after ischemic stroke onset remain inadequately studied. Objective To evaluate the safety and efficacy of intravenous alteplase administered 4.5 to 24 hours after stroke onset in patients with salvageable brain tissue,…
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