Disclosing Pain: The Case for Greater Transparency
Clinicians across medical settings commonly euphemize or understate pain, which has concerning implications for patient trust, consent, and care quality.
Doctor-Patient Relationship
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Read more: Using Health Justice to Identify Inequities Experienced by Employees with Disabilities Using Health Justice to Identify Inequities Experienced by Employees with Disabilities
A health justice approach would confront how ableism has influenced the development of reasonable accommodations law.
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Read more: ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Racism in Medical Technology ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Racism in Medical Technology
Our ability to breathe is shaped by the laws and politics that govern the use of technologies, and that validate racialized assumptions about people.
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Read more: Truth and Reconciliation in Health Care: Addressing Medical Racism using a Health Justice Framework Truth and Reconciliation in Health Care: Addressing Medical Racism using a Health Justice Framework
Healing processes can operationalize the three components of the health justice framework to address the trauma of medical racism.
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Read more: Advance Care Planning in an Online World: State Law Activity and Challenges Since COVID-19 Advance Care Planning in an Online World: State Law Activity and Challenges Since COVID-19
In this piece, we summarize the state of remote execution requirements for advance directives before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read more: How Long COVID Is Forcing a Reckoning with the Neglect of Post-Infectious Chronic Illnesses How Long COVID Is Forcing a Reckoning with the Neglect of Post-Infectious Chronic Illnesses
COVID Long Haulers and patient advocates for the chronically ill are forcing an unprecedented recognition for these chronic complex diseases.
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Read more: To Set the Price Tag for Telehealth, First Understand Its Value To Set the Price Tag for Telehealth, First Understand Its Value
Policy and regulation will play a significant role in determining whether these health care modalities are here to stay.
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Read more: New Rule Puts Medical Data in Patients’ Hands New Rule Puts Medical Data in Patients’ Hands
Health systems are now required to provide patients with timely access to their own medical records, upon request.
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Read more: Reclassification of Genetic Test Results: Potential Time Bombs in the Medical Record? Reclassification of Genetic Test Results: Potential Time Bombs in the Medical Record?
There is an increasing drumbeat of support for an ethical and legal duty for physicians to reinterpret genetic test results.
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Read more: COVID-19 and Dementia Care: Lessons for the Future COVID-19 and Dementia Care: Lessons for the Future
Family caregivers hold a critical role in the health care system and the economy, but do not receive adequate support and recognition.
