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Ethics Talk

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High-stakes ethics decisions are common in health care. What should you do? Each month, the AMA Journal of Ethics' podcast, Ethics Talk, features interviews with influential experts and leaders on a wide range of cultural, historical, legal, and social topics in health care ethics. We sort through interesting, important, and difficult questions, talk about how to weigh competing values, and offer strategies for navigating real world tough cases.
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Episodes

Editorial Fellow Interview: "Should Aging Be Treated?"

Editorial Fellow Dr Nicolai Wohns joins Ethics Talk to discuss the December 2025 issue of the Journal: "Aging is Bad for You?" Recorded October 9, 2025. Read the full December 2025 issue, Aging is Bad For You?, for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Dec 15, 20256 min

Author Interview: "How Old Are You, Actuarily?"

Dr Diya Uberoi joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Abby Rud: "How Old Are You, Actuarily?" Recorded October 3, 2025. Read the full article for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Dec 15, 20255 min

Ethics Talk: Lessons from Disability Ethics About Ageism

Dr Erin Gentry Lamb joins Ethics Talk to key ideas from disability ethics that can inform our thinking about age-related biases and Dr Kate de Medeiros describes how medicalizing aging affects our health, relationships, and sense of self. Interview with Dr Lamb recorded September 22, 2025; Interview with Dr de Medeiros recorded September 5, 2025. Read the full December 2025 issue - Aging is Bad For You? - for free at JournalOfEthics.org...

Dec 01, 202527 minSeason 18Ep. 12

Author Interview: "EHRs, iPatients, and Clinician Well-Being"

Ali Rahman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Kimberly Ho, Marissa Dulas, Dr Zi-Yi Choo, and Dr Maria Alcocer Alkureishi: "EHRs, iPatients, and Clinician Well-Being." Recorded August 22, 2025. Read the full article for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Nov 15, 20254 min

Ethics Talk: How Do Street Clinicians Use EHRs?

Brett Feldman joins Ethics Talk to discuss the evolution of electronic health records in street health care practice. Recorded on July 29, 2025. Read the full November 2025 issue, Electronic Health Record Evolution, for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Nov 01, 202523 minSeason 18Ep. 11

Ethics Talk Should the Body Mass Index (BMI) Still Be Used in Health Care?

Despite that body mass index (BMI) is a measure widely recognized as imprecise and of limited diagnostic utility, it remains in use in health care, including in procedure candidacy screening and to disqualify some patients' access to indicated interventions. In this Sept 10th Grand Rounds, Drs Fatima Cody Stanford and Natalie Boero will examine the clinical applications of BMI and their effects on patients, and how our understanding of the obesity "epidemic" has evolved. Recorded September 10, 2...

Oct 24, 202545 min

Ethics Talk: Ethical and Clinical Complexities of SDoH Screening and Follow-Up

Dr Laura Gottlieb joins Ethics Talk to discuss currently available screening methods and the difficulty in establishing causal links among data about structural determinants of health, interventions, and outcomes, and Rachel Landauer explores how screening for pediatric social drivers of health might exacerbate shame and stigma. Interviews with Dr Gottlieb recorded May 21, 2025; Interview with Rachel Landauer recorded May 21, 2025. Read the full September 2025 issue for free at JournalOfEthics.o...

Sep 01, 202527 minSeason 18Ep. 9

Editorial Fellow Interview: "Existential Health Care Ethics"

Devin Kellis joins Ethics Talk to discuss his curation of the August 2025 issue of the Journal, "Existential Health Care Ethics". Recorded June 9, 2025. Read the full August 2025 issue on Existential Health Care Ethics for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Aug 15, 20255 min
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