Clinical Conversations

July 4th, 2015

Podcast 178: Why Should Clinicians’ Complicity in CIA Torture Matter to You?

Dr. Scott Allen of Physicians for Human Rights talks about the lessons evident in the complicity of clinicians — physicians, PAs, and psychologists at the very least — in the torture of prisoners. His group published an analysis under the title “Doing Harm: Health professionals’ central role in the CIA torture program,” and that’s the focus […]

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January 6th, 2012

Podcast 140: A new edition of the ACP’s manual on ethics for clinicians is available online

The new edition of the American College of Physicians Ethics Manual has just been released, and at 30 pages, it’s well worth the reading time. It’s available free online as a supplement to the Annals of Internal Medicine. New or updated topics include social media and online professionalism, interrogation of prisoners, and allocation of medical resources. In […]

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