Chronic pain management: What is the role of medical ethics?
Exploring decision-making and chronic pain: how some value limited quality lives over prolonged harsh ones and the different parties impacted.
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Improving health literacy: Lessons from clinical ethics
Rohit Gupta discusses the importance of promoting health literacy, how a patient can obtain, communicate, and understand health information.
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How to disagree kindly
Elizabeth Sult Case describes how the field of ethics gives us tools to connect with one another and to consider difficult questions deeply together.
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A turn of events: Do virtual conferences increase collaboration?
A look into how we collaborate, discuss, and share during a pandemic, and if there’s utility in virtual engagements not found in person.
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Lessons from a thousand bioethicists: How to disagree
“So it’s like a conference full of philosophers? That should make for some heated debates,” remarked the man in the plane seat next to me
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Four medical ethics lessons from ASBH 2018
Editor’s note: Fourth-year medical students Suchi Agrawal and Kristen Mathias reflect on their experiences at the annual American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Conference,
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What makes a ‘good’ clinical ethicist?
As the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) annual conference kicks off next week, numerous ethicists will converge upon Anaheim to show off their
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The importance of case-based study in ethics consultation
Ethics consultation is tough stuff. Ethics consultants seek to identify and address value-laden conflicts or ethical uncertainties in cases involving patients, healthcare professionals, and family
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