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Latest updates on ACP's priorities, initiatives
ACP Spotlight offers readers a look at ACP's current top priorities and initiatives, as well as highlights from our e-newsletter, ACP Internist Weekly.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2023/05/latest-updates-on-acps-priorities-initiatives.htm
1 May 2023
New ethics case study addresses the EHR
The ACP Center for Ethics and Professionalism has posted a new case study, “Copied and Pasted and Misdiagnosed (or Cloned Notes and Blind Alleys)” on Medscape.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/05/22/9.htm
22 May 2012
New ACP case study deals with patient prejudice
“Patient Prejudice? The Patient Said What?... and What Comes Next” is intended to help internal medicine physicians respond when patients display inappropriate behavior.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2022/11/29/4.htm
29 Nov 2022
How medical ethics principles affect daily patient care
Is medical ethics an important aspect of real world medical practice today? Or a quaint notion for the history books based on “Mom and apple pie” generalisms?
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/02/14/10.htm
14 Feb 2012
Ethical duties in “Talking with Patients about Other Clinicians' Errors”
A recent New England Journal of Medicine Sounding Board article examined clinicians' ethical duty to address others' medical errors with patients and examines possible solutions for both physicians and institutions.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/11/05/8.htm
5 Nov 2013
New ACP case study addresses ethics in a health emergency
“Stewardship of Health Care Resources: Allocating Mechanical Ventilators during Pandemic Influenza,” a new case study from ACP's Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee, is available online for CME credit.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/03/12/7.htm
12 Mar 2013
New ethics case study, “When an Aging Colleague Seems Impaired”
“When an Aging Colleague Seems Impaired” is a new ACP ethics case study that is available online for CME credit. This case study explores the physician's ethical obligation to address a colleague's (or one's own) impairment in order to protect the safety of patients and to assist the impaired physician.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/01/07/9.htm
7 Jan 2014
ACP releases updated Ethics Manual
ACP has released the sixth edition of the Ethics Manual, published as a supplement with the Jan. 3 Annals of Internal Medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/01/10/10.htm
10 Jan 2012
ACP announces new Division of Medical Practice, Professionalism & Quality
And the winner is …
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/08/31/9.htm
31 Aug 2010
Balancing ethics, risks of ‘right to try’
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/01/balancing-ethics-risks-of-right-to-try.htm. Physicians have an obligation to ensure that patients are not harmed during the process of treatment. ... The proliferation of right-to-try legislation might create treatment challenges for doctors as well, said Tom Bledsoe, MD, FACP, chair of ACP's Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/01/balancing-ethics-risks-of-right-to-try.htm
1 Jan 2018