Dr Paris Adkins-Jackson proposes how to measure racism in academic health centers, as one responsibility of medicine is to rebuild trust with marginalized communities.
In this edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Matthew Wynia about implementation of crisis standards of care in response to the dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases that is pushing the limits of US hospitals' critical care capacity.
Dr Matthew Wynia joins us to discuss the importance and challenges of teaching Holocaust history to health professions students.
This episode of Ethics Talk is an audio version of a video interview by journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Ibram Kendi about the impact of racist policies on historically discriminated-against groups and what it means to be an antiracist.
Dr Ariane Lewis discusses how we can navigate uncertainty and ambiguity about brain death by understanding clinical criteria for brain death determination and how our approaches to death are culturally and socially situated.
In this special edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Harriet Washington about the impact of environmental racism on health during this COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
This is the audio version of and Ethics Talk video interview conducted by the AMA Journal of Ethics' editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with organizers of MIT Hacking Racism in Healthcare about design thinking as a way to find solutions to combat structural racism and advance health equity.
Dr John Banja joins Ethics Talk to discuss promises and perils of artificial intelligence applications in health care, including "megarisks" that will need to be managed.
In this video edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Drs Stefano Bertozzi and Jeffrey Mackie-Mason about sustainable models of scientific publishing that advance biomedical knowledge and discovery.
On this episode of Ethics Talk, Dr Mary Owen, president-elect of the Association of American Indian Physicians, highlights the importance of representation of Native Americans in health professions and Em Loerzel joins us to discuss violence against Native women and femme-identifying people.
Dr Mitesh Patel joins us on this episode of Ethics Talk to discuss nudges, how they can be used effectively in health care and how to identify and avoid the potential ethical pitfalls of guiding behavior.
Dr Travis Reider discusses his own experiences with opioids and the ethical challenges of "legacy patients," and Dr Stephanie Zaza, president of the American College of Preventive Medicine, discusses the future of opioid research priorities.
Kelly Leonard, executive director of insights and applied improvisation at The Second City Works, relates how improvisation can help clinicians build relationships with patients and improve their outcomes.
Lucas Livingston joins us for a special edition of Ethics Talk to discuss the loneliness epidemic exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and how museum accessibility promotes healthy aging and lifelong learning for us all.
Dr john powell joins us for this special edition of Ethics Talk to discuss how a lens of "othering and belonging" can help us navigate our obligations to and relationships with each other, especially during this COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr James Van Arsdall shares his experience of sitting for a portrait after his treatment for oral cancer and Dr Mark Gilbert describes how he came to do portraiture in clinical settings.
Mental illnesses can affect some patients' capacity to make decisions. Even so, many of these patients retain insight and should be invited to engage in shared decision making about their health care. Dr Laura Guidry-Grimes joins us to discuss how clinicians can assess whether and which decisions can be shared with people experiencing mental illness.
Alice Wong and Dr Joseph Stramondo join us on this special episode of Ethics Talk to discuss how perspectives from the disability community can help us think more powerfully about quality of life, resource allocation, and other ethical challenges arising in pandemics.
In this special edition of Ethics Talk, Dr Uché Blackstock joins us to discuss COVID-19 morbidity and mortality outcomes inequity by race, and what needs to change now and post-pandemic.
In this episode of Ethics Talk, surgeon Dr Sara Scarlet and anesthesiologist Dr Patricia Doerr discuss their perspectives on surgeon-anesthesiologist relationships.
In this special edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor-in-chief, Dr Audiey Kao, discusses the ethical challenges, including resource scarcity and medical worker obligations, that arise during pandemics with public health expert Dr Matthew Wynia.
What should clinicians do to change organizational cultures that negatively influence care they can deliver to patients? This month on Ethics Talk, Tara Montgomery and Dr Zackary Berger discuss how to identify and respond to health care organizational cultural influences on service delivery and quality.
In this episode, transgender advocate and author Ryan Sallans discusses his experience accessing health care as a transman and offers a guide for caring well for anyone with a cervix.
Good epidemic responses require cross-disciplinary collaboration. Dr David Heymann talks about serving in an Ebola containment campaign and Dr Christy Rentmeester explains what clinicians should know about colonialism to promote health equity.
How should we prepare for rapid advancement of gene editing technology? This month on Ethics Talk, Dr Sean C. McConnell provides an introduction to gene editing and CRISPR technology and Scott J. Schweikart discusses what prudent governance requires.
In reconstructive transplantation, quality of life assessments incorporate many variables. Dr Katrina Bramstedt and Dr Ana Iltis discuss the development of QoL assessment tools to help patient-subjects considering reconstructive transplantation.
Decision making in health care demands that we balance multiple considerations, like quality of life, statistics, and how different options could affect others. Dr Brian Zikmund-Fisher shares his own experience as a patient and introduces how decision science can help us navigate ethically complex health decisions.
Health professions students often participate in global health outreach programs to benefit resource-poor areas of the world and to gain valuable clinical experience. Ethical questions arise when the sustainability and educational value of these programs is questioned. This episode of Ethics Talk features John Straw and Cat Quinn of Concern America, an alternative to academic-based global health outreach programs.
What makes a drug's price fair? In this episode of Ethics Talk, Dr. Aaron S. Kesselheim helped us talk through drug pricing: what makes it "fair," how drugs are priced the way they are, and what some current legislative and market-based methods for curbing rising drug prices could look like.
When a patient is unable to express their own wishes and does not have a surrogate or advance directive, how should clinicians determine the best course of care? This month on Ethics Talk, Scott Schweikart provides an overview of 3 of the most common approaches to caring for unrepresented patients, and Dr David Ozar explains some of the policy challenges facing health professionals who care for these patients during emergencies.
