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.
A growing body of research suggests that patients are not always transparent with their physicians about critical information.
Addressing moral distress means not just obtaining ethics consultation as needed but also dealing with the feeling of powerlessness that often accompanies it.
Ethics consultants begin by identifying and clarifying the conflict to ensure it is related to ethics.
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 survey unearthed concerns about data privacy protections and confusion about who can access personal health information
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.
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored how easy it is for disreputable and non-authoritative sources to spread wrong and possibly dangerous medical information.
Compared with White patients, Black patients have 2.54 times the odds of having at least one negative descriptor in EHR
71.2% of the physicians answered incorrectly about who determined reasonable accommodations for patients with disability
Findings reveal few of the top US medical centers have policies addressing harassment of physicians and staff by patients