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14Utilizing Community Research Committees to Improve the Informed Consent ProcessAmerican Journal of Bioethics 21 (5): 73-75. 2021.Millum and Bromwich’s excellent article provides both conceptual and practical rationale for reexamining the fundamentals of the informed consent process for research and clinical interventi...
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7We Don’t Offer What Can’t Be Chosen: Why Harmful Consequences Should Not Be “Decisive” in Assessing Decision-MakingAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (10): 60-62. 2022.In this Open Peer Commentary, we draw on our clinical experience to argue that instrumental paternalism carves a pathway to competent refusal of medical intervention. Whether C successfully navigat...
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14Physician moral injury in the context of moral, ethical and legal codesJournal of Medical Ethics 48 (10): 746-752. 2022.After 40 years of attributing high rates of physician career dissatisfaction, attrition, alcoholism, divorce and suicide to ‘burnout’, there is growing recognition that these outcomes may instead be caused by moral injury. This has led to a debate about the relative diagnostic merits of these two terms, a recognition that interventions designed to treat burnout may be ineffective, and much perplexity about how—if at all—this changes anything. The current research seeks to develop the construct o…Read more
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14The Consent Continuum: A New Model of Consent, Assent, and Nondissent for Primary CareHastings Center Report 51 (2): 33-40. 2021.The practice around informed consent in clinical medicine is both inconsistent and inadequate. Indeed, in busy, contemporary health care settings, getting informed consent looks little like the formal process developed over the past sixty years and presented in medical textbooks, journal articles, and academic lectures. In this article, members of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Collaborative on Ethics and Humanities review the conventional process of informed consent and its l…Read more
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34Recognizing Moral Injury: Toward Legal Intervention for Physician BurnoutHastings Center Report 50 (3): 81-81. 2020.The writers respond to the commentary “Physician Burnout Calls for Legal Intervention,” by Sharona Hoffman, in the November‐December 2019 issue of the Hastings Center Report.
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10A Care Ethics Approach to Ethical Advocacy for Community ConditionsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (4): 35-37. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 4, May 2020, Page 35-37.
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