This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about the harms of poor-end-of-care life and how to avoid them. The featured guest is Dr Helen Chapple, a professor at…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about-based research: what it is, who it’s for, and why we should pay closer attention to it as a method of…
In this video edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Arthur Caplan about hesitancy among US health care workers to take COVID-19 vaccines.
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast on the challenges and benefits of teaching Holocaust history to health professions students. The podcast consists of an interview with Matthew…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast on death by neurologic criteria. The podcast consists of an interview with Ariane Lewis, MD, the director of the Division of…
The concept of mortal time is useful in exploring what the hospice care framework might offer nonhospice clinicians. While hospice patients seem distinct from those in other settings, life-threatening serious illness brings with it profound vulnerability that permeates the atmosphere…
Patients experiencing homelessness and mental illness face conditions and circumstances that deserve focused ethical and clinical attention. The first commentary on the case applies insights from qualitative research about social determinants of health to these patients’ care and dignity. The…
There are a few reasons why incentivizing clinicians to spend more time with patients can improve health outcomes. Doing so affords clinicians time to assess social determinants’ influences on their patients’ health experiences; offers opportunities to identify and respond to…
Potential benefits of decision aids and technology, such as artificial intelligence, used at the bedside are many and significant. Like any tools, they must be used appropriately for specific tasks, since even validated decision aids have limited utility when they…
Could clinicians help people more if they were buddhas? This article considers what the late Thích Nhâ’t Hanh meant in his call to “become buddhas” and applies Nhâ’t Hanh’s mindfulness practices to managing crises and anxiety in health care settings….
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