A5081533714- Ethics in medical practice
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Radiology practices and education
- Disaster Response and Management
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Legal Education and Practice Innovations
Emory University
2016-2025
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
2023
Novem (Netherlands)
2009
Emory Rehabilitation Hospital
2000
Emory University Hospital
1995-1998
Data science is an emerging field that provides new analytical methods. It incorporates novel data sources (eg, internet data) and methods machine learning) offer valuable timely insights into public health issues, including injury violence prevention. The objective of this research was to describe ethical considerations for scientists conducting prevention–related projects prevent unintended ethical, legal, social consequences, such as loss privacy or trust. We first reviewed foundational...
Machine learning, data science and artificial intelligence (AI) technology in healthcare (herein collectively referred to as machine learning for (MLHC)) is positioned have substantial positive impacts on healthcare, enhancing progress both the acquisition of knowledge
This paper discusses ethics-based strategies for mitigating bias in machine learning models used to predict sepsis onset. The first part how various kinds of and their potential synergies can reduce predictive accuracy, especially as those biases derive from social determinants health (SDOHs) the design construction model. second essay certain ethically-based might mitigate disparate or unfair treatment produced by these models, not only they apply but any syndrome that witnesses impact...
Objective: To design, implement, and evaluate a multi‐dimensional, interdisciplinary, educational training module that enables residents to deliver an effective empathic death disclosure in the emergency setting. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) “Toolbox of Assessment Methods” assess competency was adopted as foundation this project. Methods: Sixteen medicine residents, eight postgraduate year 1 (PGY‐1) PGY‐2, underwent one‐day evaluation exercise. exercise...
Although numerous characterizations of empathy exist, a common one describes as “putting oneself in another person's shoes and getting sense (i.e., cognitive-emotional grasp) that perspective what he or she is experiencing, feeling, thinking. Put very simply, entails taking the role other seeing from his her internal frame reference” (p. 217) [1]. Empathy, therefore, not sympathy feeling sorry for another, nor it only respectfully listening to patient talk. It is, Carl Rogers famously...
<h3>SUMMARY:</h3> With rapid advances in neuroimaging technology, there is growing concern over potential misuse of neuroradiologic imaging data legal matters. On December 7 and 8, 2012, a multidisciplinary consensus conference, Use Abuse Neuroimaging the Courtroom, was held at Emory University Atlanta, Georgia. Through this interactive forum, highly select group experts—including neuroradiologists, neurologists, forensic psychiatrists, neuropsychologists, neuroscientists, scholars,...
Specialists in pain medicine commonly experience psychological assaults on their self-esteem, especially from patients who seem unreasonably demanding, overly critical, or threatening. This article will discuss how these challenges can trigger a professional's self-protective and defensive coping mechanisms that, turn, provoke decidedly unempathic responses. Situations that compromise empathy, however, be particularly worrisome health delivery practices like are highly relational seek to use...
Artificial intelligence (AI) applications have attracted considerable ethical attention for good reasons.Although AI models might advance human welfare in unprecedented ways, progress will not occur without substantial risks.This article considers 3 such risks: system malfunctions, privacy protections, and consent to data repurposing.To meet these challenges, traditional risk managers likely need collaborate intensively with computer scientists, bioinformaticists, information technologists,...
Using an evolutionary perspective, this article examines the cogency of libertarian formulation free will—that is, that individuals have will if they “could acted or chosen otherwise under identical conditions.” The argues by representing agent as a disembodied self acting and choosing in logical rather than contextualized, lived-in space, misconstrues human willing ways invite host philosophical problems persist to present day. This indicts Platonic penchant for theoretical explanations...
Various kinds of alcohol and drug testing, such as preemployment, routine, for-cause are commonly performed by employers. While healthcare organizations usually require preemployment they vary on whether personnel will be subjected to further testing. Recently, a call has gone out for postincident testing among physicians who involved in serious, preventable events, especially ones leading patient's death. This article offer number counterarguments that proposal discuss an alternate...
The use of placebo as a control condition in clinical trials major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders continues to be an area ethical concern. Typically, opponents controls argue that they violate the beneficent-based, “best proven diagnostic therapeutic method” original Helsinki Declaration 1964 famously asserted participants are owed. A more consequentialist, oppositional argument is receiving might suffer enormously by being deprived their usual medication(s). Nevertheless, recent...
Moral conservatives such as the ones who served on George W. Bush's President's Councils Bioethics are known to be cautious about if not categorically opposed enhancement technologies. This article examines argumentative styles of two best these scholars, Leon Kass and Michael Sandel, gleaned from essays they authored while serving councils. The goal this essay is evaluate their approach opposing enhancement, which I call “virtue essentialism.” Using a critical perspective informed by...
Abstract Health professionals have been known to override patients’ advance directives. The most ethically problematic instances involve a directive's explicitly forbidding the administration of some life‐prolonging treatment like resuscitation or intubation with artificial ventilation. Sometimes code team is unaware directive, but in other instances, done knowingly and intentionally clinicians later pleading that it was “in patient's best interests.” This article surveys twenty‐year period...