Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1177/00243639241273790
Teofilo Giovan S Pugeda
{"title":"Theologizing on Artificial Intelligence in Elderly Care.","authors":"Teofilo Giovan S Pugeda","doi":"10.1177/00243639241273790","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639241273790","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the number of elderly persons rises, there is a gradual increase in reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) to augment healthcare systems. How do we interpret AI in elderly care (EC) in light of the Catholic theological tradition? As far as the literature goes to date, there is still much room for discourse. For this reason, this article hopes to contribute in that regard and, more importantly, to encourage others to further the discourse. In the present commentary, I first examine some aging trends in the world population. Afterward, I briefly describe AI use in healthcare, especially for EC. I then explore prominent ethical concerns related to it. Finally, I theologically reflect on using AI for EC vis-à-vis the magisterial teachings on aging and AI.</p>","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"19-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11562981/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142649232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2023-08-08DOI: 10.1177/00243639231189333
Thomas Clark Howell
{"title":"Cultivating Attention as a Surgical Resident: Sabbath as Resistance.","authors":"Thomas Clark Howell","doi":"10.1177/00243639231189333","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639231189333","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite our being created in right relationship with the Sabbath and holy time, we often have a dysfunctional relationship with rest, time, and ceasing. Our dysfunctional relationship with time, our hurriedness, has created an illness: \"hurry sickness.\" In medicine, our hurry sickness is often transformed into a supposed virtue we call efficiency. As a surgical resident, I am evaluated on and celebrated for my efficiency. If hurry and efficiency have created an illness, what is our remedy? Theologians propose the Sabbath as the cure to our hurry sickness. The Sabbath is the proper treatment but cannot be traditionally observed by most surgical trainees. Therefore, I explore elements of the Sabbath that can be practiced by surgical residents.</p>","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"27-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11780655/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44799006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1177/00243639241309930
Barbara Golder
{"title":"<i>The Power Broker</i> Conveys the Risks of Rejecting Reality.","authors":"Barbara Golder","doi":"10.1177/00243639241309930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639241309930","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"00243639241309930"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11780604/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143081507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1177/00243639241296575
{"title":"Winners of the 2024 Poster Contest.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00243639241296575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639241296575","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"00243639241296575"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11780600/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143081526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1177/00243639241296576
Brian J Burke
{"title":"The Loss of a Physician's Freedom of Conscience Will Result in the Breakdown of Patient Autonomy Within the Doctor-Patient Relationship.","authors":"Brian J Burke","doi":"10.1177/00243639241296576","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639241296576","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Editor's Note:</i> <i>Issues of conscience are of increasing importance in medicine, especially when it comes to the Catholic physician. Nearly fifteen years ago, this alarm was sounded regarding the connection between physician conscience and patient autonomy. First published Vol 76, No 4, November 1, 2009.</i> The development of patient autonomy within healthcare has created new challenges in the physician-patient relationship. When a patient demands a service that violates the conscience of a physician, it creates conflict within that relationship. This has become particularly problematic when a patient demands abortion or artificial contraception and the physician is morally bound to refuse. This article argues that the integrity of the physician's conscience must be maintained in order to uphold the integrity of the patient's autonomy. If the physician is forced to violate his conscience, then the guarantee that a patient's desires and wishes will be respected will be lost because a great moral inequality will be created between the physician and the patient. To safeguard both the physician-patient relationship and the patient's autonomy, it is vital that the physician's conscience be protected.</p>","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"00243639241296576"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11780603/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143081520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-23DOI: 10.1177/00243639241311315
J Brewer Eberly, Benjamin W Frush
{"title":"First, Do No Harm (to the One You Train).","authors":"J Brewer Eberly, Benjamin W Frush","doi":"10.1177/00243639241311315","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639241311315","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Primum non nocere</i> or \"first, do no harm\" is perhaps the most well-known aphorism in the culture of medical education. While its application to patients is well known, the injunction can also be read with medical trainees in mind. Teaching physicians have an obligation to recognize their role as moral teachers and coaches, who must consider \"first, do no harm\" not only when considering their patients but also when weighing the moral formation of their trainees, especially in a season in which medical educators are attempting to clarify the \"harms\" of medical training. This multi-valent vision of \"first, do no harm\" offers an alternative way to frame the contemporary difficulties of medical education while inviting a more candid, nuanced discourse between teachers and learners about the experiences of medical training, in which it can be difficult to discern between that which is truly harm and that which is merely \"hard.\" For those situations in which it is unclear-or indeed when harm is unavoidable-it may be through communal practices of reharmonization, reincorporation, and \"reharm\" that master educators might learn to tell the story of good medicine with their trainees anew, fostering moral articulacy for the trainees to whom they must also \"first, do no harm.\"</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong><i>Primum non nocere</i> or \"first, do no harm\" is among the most well-known proverbs in medical education. While its application to patients is well known, the injunction can also be read with medical trainees in mind. Teaching physicians might consider \"first, do no harm\" not only when considering their patients but also when considering the moral formation of their trainees. In a season when medical educators are attempting to clarify the \"harms\" of medical training, this reading can invite a more candid, nuanced discourse between teachers and learners about the experiences of medical training.</p>","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"00243639241311315"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11758431/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143047923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-12-10DOI: 10.1177/00243639241296783
Lealani Mae Y Acosta
{"title":"Cognitive Motor Dissociation and Spiritual Physical Association.","authors":"Lealani Mae Y Acosta","doi":"10.1177/00243639241296783","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639241296783","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"00243639241296783"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11629342/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142814381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-09-24DOI: 10.1177/00243639241285515
Tod Worner
{"title":"God and the Imperfect Practice of Medicine.","authors":"Tod Worner","doi":"10.1177/00243639241285515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639241285515","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":"91 4","pages":"446-447"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11528571/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142568123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}