Improving End-of-Life Discussions With Cancer Patients
Timely discussions about end-of-life preferences can ensure patients with advanced cancer receive care that aligns with their goals, experts say.
Ethical Issues in Medicine
ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICINE
Helping Clinicians Cope With Moral Distress Can Improve Patient Care
A central objective of addressing moral distress is to permit clinicians to effectively perform their professional functions and thus better help patients.
An Uncomfortable Truth: Why Patients Lie to Their Physicians
A growing body of research suggests that patients are not always transparent with their physicians about critical information.
Moral Distress and the Health Care Professional
Addressing moral distress means not just obtaining ethics consultation as needed but also dealing with the feeling of powerlessness that often accompanies it.
How an Ethics Consultant Can Help Resolve Conflicts
Ethics consultants begin by identifying and clarifying the conflict to ensure it is related to ethics.
The Role and Responsibilities of Surrogate Decision Makers
Surrogate decision makers for a patient are obligated to make health care decisions based on what the patient would have wanted if it is known.
AMA: 9 in 10 Americans Want Their Health Info Kept Private
AMA survey unearthed concerns about data privacy protections and confusion about who can access personal health information
Violating Patient Confidentiality Is Sometimes Necessary
Patients trust that what they tell their doctors will remain confidential, but under certain specific circumstances, the doctors may be obligated to breach that trust.
It’s a Doctor’s Duty to Combat Misinformation
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored how easy it is for disreputable and non-authoritative sources to spread wrong and possibly dangerous medical information.
Top White House Science Adviser Resigns After Probe Into ‘Disrespectful’ Behavior
Eric Lander said his resignation is effective ‘no later than February 18 in order to permit an orderly transfer’
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