Managing Implicit Bias May Address Healthcare Disparities
Unconscious, unacknowledged thoughts and feelings may interfere with fair and objective evaluations of different groups of people.
Ethical Issues in Medicine
ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICINE
Managing Conflict of Interest
Managing conflict of interest enables the medical profession to avoid bias in the delivery of patient care while allowing for reasonable financial relationships with industry.
Disclosing Conflicts of Interest Protects Integrity, Ensures Patient Trust
Physicians must be open about secondary interests such as financial gain that have the potential to bias their clinical judgment.
Should Aging Physicians Be Required to Undergo Cognitive Testing? 3 Experts Weigh In
The issue of aging physicians poses serious challenges to the medical profession, with concerns that judgment or skills might decline with age.
Training in Ethics and Prescribing May Curb Opioid Overprescribing
As opioid overprescribing is a key contributor to the current opioid crisis, implementing appropriate prescribing strategies in medical education may prepare future physicians to appropriately and ethically prescribe opioids.
Targeting Patient Mindset as a Therapeutic Approach in the Setting of Cancer
A call to action suggests cancer care should include interventions that help patients change how they think of their cancer and its treatment course.
Fernweh: Understanding Cancer Patients’ Longing for What They Will Miss
Patients with cancer will eventually have to cope with unique feelings of loss. The loss of their future life plans. Fernweh, a German that means farsickness, may explain those feelings.
How Gratitude Can Help Resolve Ethical Dilemmas
Gratitude may be a valuable tool that helps clinicians to develop “moral clarity” by improving the quality of their thought processes.
Does religion have a place in medicine?
Benjamin Frush MD, a resident in internal medicine-pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, argues in favor of a role that physicians can play in integrating religion into their clinical practice. Rob Poole MB, FRCPsych, contends that physicians should never incorporate a religious element into clinical practice.
The Role of Predictive Analytics in Clinical Care
Predictive analytics could improve care, but also compromise a physician’s ability to act in a patient’s best interest
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