Publications by authors named "Teddie Bernard"

Teletherapy Ethics.

AMA J Ethics

March 2025

This manuscript focuses on regret as a significant moral experience in surgical professionalization. It distinguishes between constructive regret, which encourages self-reflection and growth, and destructive regret, which can lead to emotional withdrawal and impaired decision-making. This article also offers recommendations for how both colleagues and organizations should respond to each type of regret, especially regret over poor outcomes, to nourish professional formation.

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COVID-19 in 2024.

AMA J Ethics

March 2025

This manuscript focuses on regret as a significant moral experience in surgical professionalization. It distinguishes between constructive regret, which encourages self-reflection and growth, and destructive regret, which can lead to emotional withdrawal and impaired decision-making. This article also offers recommendations for how both colleagues and organizations should respond to each type of regret, especially regret over poor outcomes, to nourish professional formation.

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Health beliefs about one's own future should be clearly expressed, sincere, and enduring to be taken seriously by clinicians when assessing risks and benefits in key health decisions. This cartoon considers how clinicians' expressions of doubt about those beliefs can undermine patient-clinician relationships and a patient's epistemic authority.

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