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How Netflix-style plans could solve drug-spending dilemmas

States are locked in a zero-sum budget game when it comes to breakthrough medical treatments. Subscription drug pricing can help.

Public Health
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Measles outbreaks, quarantine and the AMA Code of Medical Ethics

In epidemics, physicians must balance their ethical obligation to patients with their responsibility for public health. The AMA Code of Medical Ethics provides guidance.

Ethics
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Caring for “unrepresented” patients: 5 things to keep in mind

Seemingly unrepresented patients might, in fact, have surrogates. This and other important precautions.

Ethics
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Some patients believe God wants them to suffer. How to respond.

When a patient gives religious reasons for refusing treatment, physicians can maintain their commitment to healing while respecting patient autonomy.

Ethics
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End-of-life care: What to do when physician colleagues disagree

Physicians may differ about how to proceed with care for critically ill patients during hand-offs. Consider a way forward using these four ideas.

Ethics
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What’s healthy dying? 6 steps on the path for doctors to know

For end-of-life care, learn more about the ways that physicians can help patients and families once life-saving interventions are exhausted.

Ethics
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Inside Mayo Clinic's 5-step process for handling biased patients

Patients with hateful attitudes can pose a problem. Now physicians and other health professionals at Mayo have a place to turn for help.

Physician Health
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Billing for end-of-life care talks grows, but barriers remain

Medicare now pays for end-of-life talks, yet early-stage data shows that claims are relatively low, with differences by specialty, geography.

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AMA keeps up fight to protect physicians’ freedom of speech

The AMA continues its court battle against a federal rule that threatens the doctor-patient relationship and the viability of the Title X family planning program.

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