Search results for "Ethics"
ACP offers resources to help physicians navigate telehealth technology
Physicians can get help understanding options, insurance coverage, and billing codes for providing telehealth and explore ACP's related calculator, case study, white paper, podcast, and policy recommendations.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/11/26/5.htm
26 Nov 2019
New ACP case study examines ethical challenges of telemedicine encounters
Developed by ACP's Ethics, Professionalism, and Human Rights Committee and the Center for Ethics and Professionalism, the case study is available on Medscape and a login is required.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/11/12/5.htm
12 Nov 2019
An ode to Osler
The influential internist died 100 years ago this December.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/11/an-ode-to-osler.htm
1 Nov 2019
Nominees named for College Officer and Regent positions
The Governance Committee of the American College of Physicians places in nomination candidates for College governance.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/11/nominees-named-for-college-officer-and-regent-positions.htm
1 Nov 2019
Reviews find little to no evidence of adverse health effects from meat consumption
Researchers conducted five separate reviews looking for associations between meat consumption and outcomes, including mortality and cancer incidence, and produced a guideline based on their findings.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/10/01/1.htm
1 Oct 2019
From internist to whistleblower on detention facilities
An FACP alerted the Senate to conditions at migrant detention centers.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/10/from-internist-to-whistleblower-on-detention-facilities.htm
1 Oct 2019
Osler, expertise, and phronesis personified
From residency onward throughout a physician's career, becoming a diagnostician requires the ability to distinguish important clues or details from those that are not as pertinent to the situation at hand, a slowly developed skill that ultimately is recognized as an “expertise.”
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/10/osler-expertise-and-phronesis-personified.htm
1 Oct 2019
Prevent, recognize impairment
Professional duties require physicians to recognize and address physician illness and impairment, but it is often difficult to recognize a colleague's condition and find an appropriate way of reporting and resolving it.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/09/prevent-recognize-impairment.htm
1 Sep 2019
Those lost
A physician recounts colleagues she lost to physician suicide in her seven-year career as an attending hospitalist physician.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/09/those-lost.htm
1 Sep 2019
ACP partners with Core IM podcast to provide continuing education to ACP members
The podcast features four categories of episodes with topics ranging from knowledge translation and clinical reasoning to critical thinking and humanities.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/16/4.htm
16 Jul 2019