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Below: two former top officials of the federal Children’s Bureau answer a question posed by the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics. Just a few years ago, the AMA wouldn’t even have asked.
AMA JOURNAL OF ETHICS, February 2023
How Should Race and Resource Context Influence How Neglect Is Considered by Clinicians?
By David Kelly, JD, MA and Jerry Milner, DSW
Separation of children from their parents is one possible traumatizing consequence of a mandated report, which is not to be taken lightly. This commentary on a case considers how racism and poverty should influence clinicians’ construal of their duties as mandatory reporters of abuse and offers recommendations about how to respond in similarly difficult cases. …
Read the full story here https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-should-race-and-resource-context-influence-how-neglect-considered-clinicians/2023-02
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