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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

Ethics Talk: Why Health Care Still Matters in the Face of Humanity's End

Dr Joseph G. Hodgkin joins Ethics Talk to discuss why clinicians should care about nuclear proliferation, and Dr Farah Hussain explains why health professions education curricula needs to include planetary health. Interview with Dr Hodgkin was recorded May 14, 2025; the interview with Dr Hussain was recorded May 28, 2025. Read the full August 2025 issue of the Journal, Existential Health Care Ethics, for free at JournalOfEthics.org...

Aug 01, 202528 minSeason 18Ep. 8

Ethics Talk: What Should Clinicians and Patients Know About Private Equity in Health Care?

In May 2025, the Journal launched the AMA Journal of Ethics Grand Rounds. This live broadcast series features experts engaging important but neglected questions and topics heath care ethics and health policy and a live questions and answer segment. Like all of our Ethics Talk podcasts, AMA Journal of Ethics Grand Rounds are eligible for CE credit in several multimedia formats. This is the audio version of the AMA Journal of Ethics Grand Rounds broadcast: What Should Clinicians and Patients Know ...

Jul 21, 202543 min

Ethics Talk: Time as a Critical Resource in Rural Emergency Medical Services

Representative Eric Emery joins Ethics Talk to discuss how rural EMS workers manage time as a critical resource and how legislative policy can help direct resources toward improving rural EMS service. Recorded April 18, 2025. Read the full July 2025 issue of the Journal, Rural US Emergency Medical Services, at JournalOfEthics.org .

Jul 01, 202517 minSeason 18Ep. 7

Ethics Talk: How Poetry Can Enhance Ethical Inquiry

In this special episode of Ethics Talk, poet and senior policy analyst with the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs Dr Jake Young joins us to discuss his poem, A Rare Bone Disease, and how creative arts, including poetry, can help enhance ethical inquiry's power and richness. Recorded May 15, 2024. Read our full issue on Embodiment in Art Practice at JournalofEthics.org Read this poem in full at Dr Young's website: jake-young.com...

Jun 11, 202512 min

Ethics Talk: Whose Bodies Should Be Represented in Art?

Dr Christy Slobogin joins Ethics Talk to discuss embodiment – what it is and why clinicians should care about it. Recorded February 28, 2025. Read the full June 2025 issue on Emodiment in Health Care for free at JournaOfEthics.org

Jun 01, 202520 minSeason 18Ep. 6

Ethics Talk: Are Private Equity Investments Really Different From Other Ownership Structures in Health Care?

Dr Rob Field joins Ethics Talk to discuss whether and to what extent private equity firm's increasing presence in health care deserves our scrutiny and what policy makers, clinicians, and patients should know about responding to private equity ownership stakes in the organizations where work and where they go for health services. Read the full May 2025 issue on private equity in health care for free at JournalOfEthics.org...

May 01, 202522 minSeason 18Ep. 5

Ethics Talk: Yes, Involuntary Sterilization Still Happens in the US

Lawyer Cynthia Chandler joins Ethics Talk to discuss the practice of sterilization in California state prisons and Dr Anthony Loria shares new research on surgical outcomes for incarcerated patients. Chandler interview recorded December 17, 2024; Loria interview recorded December 19, 2024.

Apr 01, 202527 minSeason 18Ep. 4

Author interview: "Stage, Cut, Investigate, Regret, Heal"

Maximilian Shaefer joins Ethics Talk to discuss his series of drawings: "An Empty Stage," "One Wrong Cut," "An Investigation," "Regret," and "The Healing Hand." Recorded July 1, 2024. See the full series of drawings for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Mar 15, 20254 min
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