Abraham Schwab
Biographic Data
| ID | 3933374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abraham Schwab |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abraham |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwab |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWAB A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The epistemic responsibilities in medicine of beneficence and respect for patient autonomy
The two dogmas of empirical education in medicine. A commentary on Sales and Schlaff
The Patient's Piece of the Informed Consent Pie
I've tried to quit smoking more times than I can count. Several years ago, I asked my family physician for a well-known drug to help me quit. He responded by providing me with a list of support groups, suggesting I try one. I responded that I was not a "support group" person. He suggested I try one anyway. The interaction struck me as odd, given that the physician and I clearly had the same goal-I was to quit smoking-but the physician was dictati…
Putting cognitive psychology to work: Improving decision-making in the medical encounter
Accountability via Chart Audits
In this short article, I will make a case for physician accountability via audit that moves away from some traditional conceptions of accountability. On my view, to hold some individual or organization accountable is to attempt to identify areas where improved performance is needed. I will start with some reasonable targets for medical practice and then discuss some strategies that can improve our aim. Of course, to identify the best strategies, …
Street Credibility and the Division of Labor in Bioethics
An unsettled and unsettling question in the hospital, in the university, and in the medical school is "What qualifies someone to be a bioethicist?" What exactly is it that constitutes expertise for this member of the medical team, this educator, this critic and policymaker
Improving Clinical Decision Making by Excising the Physician’s Judgment
In 1950 a patient with diabetes couldn’t test his or her own blood sugar or have it tested by the doctor; a pregnant woman couldn’t get an ultrasound picture of her fetus and we didn’t know what DNA looked like; the polio and measles vaccines didn’t exist and neither did Medicare or Medicaid. Today these are such common aspects of routine medical practice that it’s hard to imagine not knowing about the double helix or the perpetual problems of Me…
Case 7.1: Indigent Care—Volunteering at the Clinic
Case 7.1: Indigent Care-Volunteering at the Clinic Case PresentationDr. Mills has been volunteering one day a week at a free neighborhood health clinic that serves those with state medical cards as well as homeless individuals who walk in for acute care.On other days, Dr. Mills is part of an internal medicine practice group with five other physicians.Even though Dr. Mills receives less compensation because he is only in the office four days a wee…
Case 6.1: Gifts from Industry—The Cost of Lunch
Primary Care in a Specialty Society
A friend of mine found himself attending his partner's son's soccer game, sitting next to his partner's ex-wife. When asked by another soccer parent if they were the boy's parents, my friend paused a moment, and left it with, "Our relationship is a little richer than that." Increasingly complex family relationships alongside the ever-expanding body of medical knowledge and the unfurling of more accurate and more numerous diagnostics (including ge…
Determining Research through Underdetermined Treatment
Miller PB, Weijer C. Rehabilitating equipoise. Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 2003;13(2):93-118. When a medical expert cannot responsibly favor one treatment over another—when the available evidence does not indicate (or underdetermines) what is the best treatment—the treatments are in equipoise. Certainly, this happens in clinical practice every day; however, equipoise is applied by medical practitioners, institutional review board members, and bioethic…
Ethics in the Practice of Surgery
The theme editor introduces a special issue focusing on the ethical
Determining Research through Underdetermined Treatment
Miller PB, Weijer C. Rehabilitating equipoise. Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 2003;13(2):93-118. When a medical expert cannot responsibly favor one treatment over another—when the available evidence does not indicate (or underdetermines) what is the best treatment—the treatments are in equipoise. Certainly, this happens in clinical practice every day; however, equipoise is applied by medical practitioners, institutional review board members, and bioethic…
Ethics in the Practice of Surgery
The theme editor introduces a special issue focusing on the ethical
Case 7.1: Indigent Care—Volunteering at the Clinic
Case 7.1: Indigent Care-Volunteering at the Clinic Case PresentationDr. Mills has been volunteering one day a week at a free neighborhood health clinic that serves those with state medical cards as well as homeless individuals who walk in for acute care.On other days, Dr. Mills is part of an internal medicine practice group with five other physicians.Even though Dr. Mills receives less compensation because he is only in the office four days a wee…
Case 6.1: Gifts from Industry—The Cost of Lunch
Primary Care in a Specialty Society
A friend of mine found himself attending his partner's son's soccer game, sitting next to his partner's ex-wife. When asked by another soccer parent if they were the boy's parents, my friend paused a moment, and left it with, "Our relationship is a little richer than that." Increasingly complex family relationships alongside the ever-expanding body of medical knowledge and the unfurling of more accurate and more numerous diagnostics (including ge…
Street Credibility and the Division of Labor in Bioethics
An unsettled and unsettling question in the hospital, in the university, and in the medical school is "What qualifies someone to be a bioethicist?" What exactly is it that constitutes expertise for this member of the medical team, this educator, this critic and policymaker
Improving Clinical Decision Making by Excising the Physician’s Judgment
In 1950 a patient with diabetes couldn’t test his or her own blood sugar or have it tested by the doctor; a pregnant woman couldn’t get an ultrasound picture of her fetus and we didn’t know what DNA looked like; the polio and measles vaccines didn’t exist and neither did Medicare or Medicaid. Today these are such common aspects of routine medical practice that it’s hard to imagine not knowing about the double helix or the perpetual problems of Me…
Accountability via Chart Audits
In this short article, I will make a case for physician accountability via audit that moves away from some traditional conceptions of accountability. On my view, to hold some individual or organization accountable is to attempt to identify areas where improved performance is needed. I will start with some reasonable targets for medical practice and then discuss some strategies that can improve our aim. Of course, to identify the best strategies, …
The Patient's Piece of the Informed Consent Pie
I've tried to quit smoking more times than I can count. Several years ago, I asked my family physician for a well-known drug to help me quit. He responded by providing me with a list of support groups, suggesting I try one. I responded that I was not a "support group" person. He suggested I try one anyway. The interaction struck me as odd, given that the physician and I clearly had the same goal-I was to quit smoking-but the physician was dictati…
Putting cognitive psychology to work: Improving decision-making in the medical encounter
The two dogmas of empirical education in medicine. A commentary on Sales and Schlaff
The epistemic responsibilities in medicine of beneficence and respect for patient autonomy
Medicine (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Ethics in medical practice (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Family medicine (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works)