Clinicians must share knowledge with their patients more readily

Dual trees must share their ends

We extend to infinite graphs the matroidal characterization of finite graph duality, that two graphs are dual i↵ they have complementary spanning trees in some common edge set. The naive infinite analogue of this fails. The key in an infinite setting is that dual trees must share between them not only the edges of their host graphs but also their ends: the statement that a set of edges is acycl...

Must doctors save their patients?

Do doctors and other medical staff have an obligation to treat those who need their help? This paper assumes no legal or contractual obligations but attempts to discover whether there is any general moral obligation to treat those in need. In particular the questions of whether or not the obligation that falls on medical staff is different from that of others and of whether doctors are more bla...

When clinicians must testify in court.

When and How Should Clinicians Share Details from a Health Record with Patients with Mental Illness?

Stigma associated with mental illness-a public health crisis-is perpetuated by the language used to describe and document it. Psychiatric pathology and how it can be perceived among clinicians contribute to the marginalization of patients, which exacerbates their vulnerability. Clinical documentation of mental illness has long been mired in pejorative language that perpetuates negative assumpti...

RI clinicians share timely reviews in nephrology.

Much has changed since the launching in the US of the EndStage Renal Disease (ESRD) Program under Medicare on July 1, 1973, a unique entitlement program based solely on the presence of a clinical condition. Dialysis, initially a privilege for a select few, has exploded since then to become a multibillion dollar industry today, with over 600,000 patients on dialysis in the US, and over 1.6 milli...