July 16, 2025

Great work to Rana Barghout and Josh Lachs on our recent work published in SAEM Pulse! The "sliding scale of capacity" is a really under-appreciated topic in clinical ethics. In the most recent edition, we co-authored “Balancing Risk and Autonomy: Applying the Sliding Scale of Capacity in AMA Decisions,” where we discuss how emergency physicians can approach AMA situations by aligning risk with decision-making capacity using a framework that’s practical, ethical, and patient-centered.
LinkedIn post here.