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.
Diagnosis & Disease 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.
Black Patients More Likely to Have Negative Descriptors in Notes
Compared with White patients, Black patients have 2.54 times the odds of having at least one negative descriptor in EHR
Physicians Lack Knowledge About Responsibilities Under ADA
71.2% of the physicians answered incorrectly about who determined reasonable accommodations for patients with disability
Hospitals Lag in Sexual Harassment Policies
Findings reveal few of the top US medical centers have policies addressing harassment of physicians and staff by patients
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