Subject: Conflict of Interest

By Brian M. Cummings, MD and John J. Paris, SJ, PhD John Stuart Mill proclaimed, “Over himself, over his own body and mi...

August 11, 2021

Conflict of Interest, Cultural, Decision making, Gender Disparities, Justice, Media, Psychiatric Ethics

By Jennifer L Young, PhD, Julia E H Brown, PhD, Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD In a small but significant change ...

August 2, 2021

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In a news item reported in Rolling Stone, NPR, and The Houston Chronicle, the medical director o...

April 14, 2020

Editorials appear in cooperation with the American Journal of Bioethics. This article and its associated pieces can be f...

April 18, 2019

“Examining ethical issues in TV medical dramas” Jump to The Resident (Season 2; Episode 16): Money corrupts, patient aut...

March 11, 2019

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. This week was a quiet one as many regular dramas were pre-empted and others did not present ethi...

February 3, 2019

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Jump to The Resident (Season 1; Episode 11): Listening to patients; Jump to The Good Doctor (Sea...

January 25, 2019

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Jump to The Resident (Season 2; Episode 10): What would you do doctor?a>;Jump to The Good Doc...

January 18, 2019

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Threats to privacy and confidentiality swirl around. Each day the newspaper seems to report on s...

January 10, 2019

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. I recently received an email from a community organization which asked the following question: “...

December 12, 2018

by Lisa Kearns, MS, MA, and Arthur Caplan, PhD A few months ago we called for a new conflict of interest (COI) disclosur...

November 2, 2018

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. “Exploring ethical issues in TV medical dramas” Jump to The Resident (Season 2; Episode 5): Buyi...

October 26, 2018