A young clinician notices that every patient she refers to one cardiologist gets cardiac catheterizations--whether they need them or not. How should she deal with this? The podcast features Shiphra Ginsburg, MD, MEd, PhD, from Mount Sinai Hospi

Is It Time to Retire?

Apr 18th, 2017 31m 5s

Making the decision about when to retire is never easy. Cognitive and technical skills may decline with age, but judgment and the ability to interact with patients improve as physicians gain experience. Physicians also tend to pay little attent

Treating Resource Overutilization Like a Complication

Feb 28th, 2017 21m 17s

Health care spending in the United States is excessive, yet when resources are wasted there are few ramifications. This JAMA Professionalism article proposes that excessive resource utilization be approached with the same seriousness as are tre

What Should Students or Residents Do When Abused by Faculty

Dec 6th, 2016 30m 41s

Approximately one-third of all medical school graduates report having been abused as students. Medical student and resident abuse has long been considered unacceptable behavior but still persists in the teaching environment. In this podcast we

Professional Boundaries: What to Do When Clinicians Ask Other Clinicians to Prescribe Medications for Them

Oct 25th, 2016 27m 29s

In this episode of JAMA Professionalism: Best Practice, Edward H. Livingston, MD looks at the case of a physician requesting prescription medication from a colleague to examine professional boundaries between physicians and options for managing

Disclosure of Medical Error

Aug 16th, 2016 21m 29s

Introducing a new series of JAMA articles on professionalism, discussed from the perspective of how clinicians should address challenging clinical situations and adverse events in their medical practice. In the first episode of the accompanying

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