Podcasts by Ethics Talk
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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Ethics Talk: Does Normalization of Turfing Explain Why There’s No Recent Literature on It? from 2023-12-01T04:00
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Ethics Teaching and Learning: Drawing on Students’ Experiences With the COVID-19 Pandemic to Teach Public Health Ethics from 2023-11-22T09:00
Dr Pamela Teaster joins Ethics Teaching and Learning to discuss public health ethics teaching during the waning COVID-19 pandemic.
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Author Interview: “What Should Students Learn About the Importance of Cultural Brokering in Immigrant Communities?” from 2023-11-15T09:00
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Author Interview: “The Internet and Loneliness” from 2023-11-15T09:00
Author Interview: “Loneliness and Cultural Hyphenation” from 2023-11-15T09:00
Author Interview: “Rest Is the First Casualty of Constant Messaging” from 2023-11-15T09:00
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Author Interview: “Isolation” from 2023-11-15T09:00
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Author Interview: “On Health and Loneliness” from 2023-11-15T09:00
Ethics Talk: Why Should We Think of Loneliness in Terms of Democracy? from 2023-11-01T10:00
Ethics Teaching and Learning: How Can Dying Be Healthy? from 2023-10-24T09:00
Dr Helen Chapple joins Ethics Talk to talk about teaching health professions students and trainees about acknowledging and reali...
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Author Interview: “How to Draw on Narrative to Mitigate Ageism” from 2023-10-15T09:00
Author Interview: “Why We Must Prevent and Appropriately Manage Delirium” from 2023-10-15T09:00
Author Interview: "Ageism as a Source of Global Mental Health Inequity” from 2023-10-15T09:00
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Ethics Talk: Where Are All the Geriatric Psychiatrists? from 2023-10-01T04:00
Ethics Teaching and Learning: When Should Psychiatric Care Be Palliative? from 2023-09-22T14:00
Dr Cynthia Geppert joins Ethics Talk to discuss how teaching health professions students and trainees about palliative psychiatry reinvigorates core...
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Author Interview: “Does It Matter Whether a Psychiatric Intervention Is 'Palliative?'” from 2023-09-15T04:00
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Author Interview: "Is There a Case for Palliative Care Addiction Psychiatry?” from 2023-09-15T04:00
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Author Interview: “A Life-Affirming Palliative Care Model for Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa” from 2023-09-15T04:00
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Author Interview: “What Should Clinicians Know About Palliative Psychopharmacology?” from 2023-09-15T04:00
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Ethics Talk: How Should We Keep Psychiatric Patients Comfortable? from 2023-09-01T04:00
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Author Interview: “How Should Risk Be Communicated to Patients When Developing Resident Surgeon Robotic Skills?” from 2023-08-15T04:00
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Author Interview: “AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Robotic Surgery” from 2023-08-15T04:00
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Ethics Talk: What Does Artificial Intelligence Do for Surgeons? from 2023-08-01T04:00
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Author Interview: “AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Clinical Use of BMI” from 2023-07-15T04:00
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Author Interview: “How Should We Approach Body Size Diversity in Clinical Trials?” from 2023-07-15T04:00
Author Interview: “Fat Norms and the AMA” from 2023-07-15T04:00
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Ethics Talk: How to Fight BMI-Based Denials of Payment from 2023-07-01T04:00
Author Interview: “Gender-Affirming Care, Incarceration, and the Eighth Amendment” from 2023-06-15T04:00
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Author Interview: “More Lessons for Health Professionals From a Transgender Patient” from 2023-06-15T04:00
Ethics Talk: Whose Faces Does Facial Feminization Surgery Consider “Feminine?” from 2023-06-01T04:00
Author Interview: “Overcoming Pseudo-stoicism in Medicine" from 2023-05-15T04:00
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Author Interview: "A Completely Normal Conversation With a Box” from 2023-05-15T04:00
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Ethics Talk: Who’s Included in IPE? from 2023-05-01T04:00
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Ethics Talk: Why Is Meat So Cheap? from 2023-04-01T05:00
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Author Interview: “Do Clinics in Meat and Poultry Plants Endanger Workers?” from 2023-04-01T05:00
Author Interview: “Greener Health Care Is a Necessity” from 2023-04-01T05:00
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Ethics Talk: How Medicalization Limits Public Health Effectiveness from 2023-03-01T05:00
Dr Paula Lantz joins Ethics Talk to discuss how medical...
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Author Interview: “How Should Clinicians and Researchers in Government Respond to Threats to Their Offices?” from 2023-03-01T05:00
Dr Daphne Mlachila joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Should Clinicians and Researchers in Government Respond to Threats to Their Offices?”
Recorded January 6, 2022.
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Author Interview: “What Should Be Roles of Federal Clinician Governors in Motivating Equity in Locally Coordinated Triage Protocols?” from 2023-03-01T05:00
Isabelle M. Mikell joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Courtney L. Savage Ho...
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Author Interview: “How Should the US Federal Government Oversee Clinicians’ Relationships With Industry?” from 2023-03-01T05:00
Dr Sunita Sah joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Should the US Federal Government Oversee Clinicians’ Relationships With ...
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Author Interview: “Holding Clinicians in Public Office Accountable to Professional Standards” from 2023-03-01T05:00
Professor Wendy E. Parmet joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Claudia E. Haupt: “Holding Clinicians in Public Office Accountable to Professional Standards”
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Author Interview: “AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Clinicians in Government” from 2023-03-01T05:00
Scott Schweikart joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “AMA<...
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Author Interview: “Which Skills Are Key to Public Health Leaders’ Success in Crisis Management?” from 2023-03-01T05:00
Dr Evan Anderson joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Professor Scott Burris: “Which Skills Are Key to Public Health Leaders’ Success in Crisis Management?”
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Author Interview: “Science and Ethics of ‘Curing’ Misinformation” from 2023-03-01T05:00
Dr Isabelle Freiling joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Nicole M. Krause and...
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Author Interview: “How Should Clinicians and Students Cope with Secondary Trauma When Caring for Children Traumatized by Abuse or Neglect?” from 2023-02-01T05:00
Dr Colleen E. Bennett joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Cindy W. Christian: “How Should Clinicians and Students Cope with Secondary Trauma W...
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Ethics Talk: How to Avoid Hyper Medicalization and Iatrogenic Child Abuse from 2023-02-01T05:00
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Author Interview: “McGirt v Oklahoma and What Clinicians Should Know About Present-Day Child Abuse and Legacies of Forced Migration” from 2023-02-01T05:00
Amy D. Hendrix-Dicken joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Sarah J. Passmore, Michael A. Baxter, and Lauren ...
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Author Interview: “What the COVID-19 Pandemic Teaches Us About Pediatric Iatrogenic Risk” from 2023-02-01T05:00
Dr Katherine Pumphrey joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Jessica Hart: “What the COVID-19 Pandemic Teaches Us About Pediatric Iatrogenic Risk...
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Author Interview: “Papal Doctrines’ Deep Trauma Legacies in Minoritized Communities” from 2023-02-01T05:00
Dr Michael J. Oldani joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “Papal Doctrines’ Deep Trauma Legacies in Minoritized Communities.”
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Author Interview: “Illuminating Psychological Torment of Child Abuse” from 2023-02-01T05:00
Tania L. Abramson joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Paul R. Abramson: “Illuminating Psychological ...
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Author Interview: “Key Updates to Understanding Roles of Childhood Trauma in Overall Health” from 2023-02-01T05:00
Dr Jeremy Weleff joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Dawn Potter: “ Listen
Ethics Talk: Is VIP Care Really Better? from 2023-01-01T05:00
Dr Lisa Lehmann joins Ethics Talk to discuss “grateful patient programs," pressures clinician face to fundraise on behalf of health care organizations for which they w...
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Author Interview: “How Should Health Professions Educators and Organizations Desegregate Teaching and Learning Environments?” from 2023-01-01T05:00
Dr Aisha James joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Katrina Armstrong: “How Should Health Professions Educators and Organizations Desegregate Teaching and Learning Enviro...
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Author Interview: “Is It Reasonable to Expect Students and Trainees to Internalize Equity as a Core Professional Value When Teaching and Learning Occurs in Segregated Settings?” from 2023-01-01T05:00
Adrian Pero joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Emily Xu: “Is It Reasonable to Expect Students and Trainees to Internalize Equity as a Core Professional Value When Teaching...
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Author Interview: “Training to Build Antiracist, Equitable Health Care Systems” from 2023-01-01T05:00
Dr Emily Cleveland Manchanda joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Karthik Sivashanker, Steffie Kinglake, Emil...
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Author Interview: “Medical Student-Driven Efforts to Incorporate Segregated Care Education Into Their Curriculum” from 2023-01-01T05:00
Ruhee Shah joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Lindsay Clark, Terence Hughes,...
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Author Interview: “What Should Antiracist Payment Reform Look Like?” from 2023-01-01T05:00
Dr Kimberly Singletary joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Marsha...
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Author Interview: “How Does Racial Segregation Taint Medical Pedagogy?” from 2023-01-01T05:00
Harriet Washington joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Listen
Ethics Talk Series on US Abortion Care After Dobbs, Episode 5/5: Wait. What? Some Clinicians Agree to Watch Their Patients Get Sicker? from 2022-12-16T05:00
Professor Katie Watson and Dr Rebecca Cohen join Ethics Talk to consider observed decompensation as a post-Dobbs clinical and ethical phenomenon and its influences on health professionalism.
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Ethics Talk: Human-Centered Design and the Sounds of Solidarity from 2022-12-01T05:00
John Meyer joins Ethics Talk to discuss how “human-centered” design can help remove barriers to care and forge solidarity between pat...
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Author Interview: “How Should Clinicians Ally With Patients Whose Health Is Unlikely to Be Improved by Even Numerous Clinical Encounters?” from 2022-12-01T05:00
Dr Adam T. Perzynski joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, c...
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Author Interview: "How Should Clinicians Own Their Roles as Past and Present Exacerbators of Health Inequity and as Present and Future Contributors to Health Equity?” from 2022-12-01T05:00
Dr Lisa M Lee joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Anita Lee: "How Should Clinicians Own Their Roles as Past ...
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Author Interview: "Decision Aids, Doorknob Moments, and Physician-Patient Solidarity in EDs"” from 2022-12-01T05:00
Dr Emily Shearer joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coaut...
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Author Interview: “Solidarity in Mortal Time” from 2022-12-01T05:00
Dr Helen Stanton Chapple joins Ethics Talk to discuss her artic...
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Author Interview: “Why Money Is Well Spent on Time” from 2022-12-01T05:00
Professor Michael R Ulrich joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “Why Money Is Well Spent on Ti...
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Author Interview: “Does Osler’s Aequanimitas Inform Our Contemporary Pursuit of Stillness?” from 2022-12-01T05:00
Dr James B Young joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “Does Osler’s Listen
Ethics Talk Series on US Abortion Care After Dobbs, Episode 4/5: How Dobbs Creates Unnecessary, Abnormal Risks for Clinicians and Patients from 2022-11-11T04:00
Professor Katie Watson joins Ethics Talk to consider key questions about clinical and legal risk management for clinicians trying keep patients safe and for patients with compl...
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Ethics Talk Series on US Abortion Care After Dobbs, Episode 3/5: How Do We Teach Evidence-Based Standard of Care Now? from 2022-11-04T04:00
Dr Jody Steinauer joins Ethics Talk to discuss possible responses to what the Dobbs decision demands of clinician-teachers. Listen
Ethics Talk: How Consumer Advocacy Groups Advance Health Equity from 2022-11-01T04:00:57
Mark Rukavina joins Ethics Talk to discuss how consumer advocacy groups can help advance health justice and equity.
Recorded July 25, 2022.
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Author Interview: “Informed Consent as a Means of Acknowledging and Avoiding Financial Toxicity as Iatrogenic Harm” from 2022-11-01T04:00:46
Dr Kevin Shulman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Barak Richman<...
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Author Interview: “What Should US Policymakers Learn From International Drug Pricing Transparency Strategies?” from 2022-11-01T04:00:45
Sarosh Nagar joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Leah Rand Aaron Kesselhe...
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Author Interview: “If Patients Don’t Use Available Health Service Pricing Information, Is Transparency Still Important?” from 2022-11-01T04:00:37
Dr Christopher Whaley joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Austin Frakt: “...
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Author Interview: “Necessity for and Limitations of Price Transparency in American Health Care” from 2022-11-01T04:00:29
Dr Harold Pollack joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “Necessity for and Limitations of Price...
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Author Interview: “Which Price Should Be Transparent and Why?” from 2022-11-01T04:00:23
Dr Sherry Glied joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Listen
Author Interview: “How Should Cost-Informed Goals of Care Decisions Be Facilitated at Life’s End?” from 2022-11-01T04:00:18
Dr Jing Li joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Robert Tyler Braun, Sophia Kakarala, and Dr Holly Prigerson: ...
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Author Interview: “What Should Clinicians Do When Health Services Are Improperly Billed in Their Names?” from 2022-11-01T04:00:08
Dr Mustfa Manzur joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Sharon Griswold and Wendy Dean: "What Should Clinicians Do When Health Services Are Improperly Billed in Their Name...
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Author Interview: “What Should ‘Shopping’ Look Like in Actual Practice?” from 2022-11-01T04:00:05
Dr Nisha Patel joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Jesse Ehrenfeld and Br...
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Ethics Talk Series on US Abortion Care After Dobbs, Episode 2/5: Unequal Protection and Encroachment on Reproductive Destiny from 2022-10-28T04:00
Professor Michele Goodwin joins Ethics Talk to consider how memb...
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Ethics Talk Series on US Abortion Care After Dobbs, Episode 1/5: Exclusion of US Women From Constitutional Protection from 2022-10-21T04:00
Professor Katie Watson joins Ethics Talk to discuss what clinicians need to know about changes to the post-June 2022 legal, ethical, and clinical landscape of abortion care in the US.
Author Interview: “How Should Clinicians and Health Care Organizations Respond When Civic Planning Concentrates Waste Processing in Minoritized Communities?” from 2022-10-01T04:00:54
Megan Chao Smith joins Ethics Talk to discuss their article, coauthored with Dr Shanda Demorest: “<...
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Author Interview: “How Should Responsibility for Proper Medication Disposal Be Shared?” from 2022-10-01T04:00:47
Ladan Karim-Nejad joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Listen
Author Interview: “What Would It Mean for Health Care Organizations to Justly Manage Their Waste?” from 2022-10-01T04:00:41
Genevieve S. Silva joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Cassandra Thiel Listen
Author Interview: Why Community Health Workers’ Roles in Latinx Communities Are Essential from 2022-04-01T05:00:48
Wandy Hernandez-Gordon joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Why Community Health Workers’ Ro...
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Ethics Talk: How the US Census Left Latinx Americans Behind from 2022-04-01T05:00:27
On this episode of Ethics Talk, Dr Ruth Enid Zambrana shows how decisions about demographic data collection have the power to illuminate or obscure health inequity. T...
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Author Interview: Recognizing and Dismantling Raciolinguistic Hierarchies in Latinx Health from 2022-04-01T05:00:27
Dr Pilar Ortega joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Glenn Martínez, Marco A. Alemán, Alejandra Zapién-Hidalgo, and Tiffany M. Shin: “Recognizing and Dismantling Raciolingu...
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Author Interview: How Should Clinicians Express Solidarity With Asylum Seekers at the US-Mexico Border? from 2022-04-01T05:00:25
Carlos Martinez joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Lauren Carruth, Hannah Janeway, Lahra Smith, Katharine Donato, Listen
Author Interview: Should Clinicians Be Activists? from 2022-04-01T05:00:17
Dr Kristen Pallok joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr David Ansell: Listen
Author Interview: How Is Colonialism a Sociostructural Determinant of Health in Puerto Rico? from 2022-04-01T05:00:15
Dr José Pérez-Ramos joins Ethics Talk discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Adriana Garriga-López and Carlos E Rodríguez-Díaz: How Is Colonialism a Sociostructural Determinant of Health in Pu...
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Ethics Talk: The Generative Power of Abolition from 2022-03-01T05:00
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Author Interview: Why Professionalism Demands Abolition of Carceral Approaches to Patients’ Nonadherence Behaviors from 2022-03-01T05:00
Aminta Kouyate joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Nhi Tran and Monica Hahn: “Listen
Author Interview: Alignment of Abolition Medicine With Reproductive Justice from 2022-03-01T05:00
Dr Crystal Hayes joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Anu Manchikanti Gomez: “Alignment of Abolition Medicine With Reproductive Justice”
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Author Interview: An Abolitionist Approach to Antiracist Medical Education from 2022-03-01T05:00
Russyan Mark Mabeza joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Betial Asmerom, Dr Rupinder Legha, and Vanessa Nuñez: “What Law Enforcement Can Lear...
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Author Interview: Community Mental Health Centers’ Roles in Depolicing Medicine from 2022-03-01T05:00
Dr Carmen Black joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Emma Lo and Keith Gallagher: “Community Mental Health Centers’ Roles in Depolicing Medicine”
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Author Interview: How Abolition of Race-Based Medicine Is Necessary to American Health Justice from 2022-03-01T05:00
Dr Stephen Richmond joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Vanessa Grubbs: “How Abolition of Race-Based Medicine Is Necessary to American Health Justice”
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Author Interview: How Should Educators and Publishers Eliminate Racial Essentialism? from 2022-03-01T05:00
Dr Jennifer Tsai joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Should Educators and Publishers Eliminate Racial Essentialism?”
Recorded December 13, 2021
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Ethics Talk: How Crisis Intervention Team Training Improves Safety from 2022-02-01T05:00
Dr Amy Watson joins Ethics Talk to discuss how crisis intervention teams can motivate efficiency and equity in tactical responses to 911 calls and what community ...
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Author Interview: “How Should Clinicians Determine a Traumatized Patient’s Readiness to Return to Work?” from 2022-02-01T05:00
Author Interview: “Should a Physician Ever Violate SWAT or TEMS Protocol in a Mass Casualty Incident?” from 2022-02-01T05:00
Dr Brandon Morshedi joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Faroukh Mehkri: “Should a Physician Ever Violate SWAT or TEMS Protocol in a Mass ...
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Author Interview: “Tactical Emergency Casualty Care and the Art of Practicing Nonmaleficence in Harm’s Way” from 2022-02-01T05:00
Dr Jeremy Ackerman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “Tactical Emergency Casualty Care and the Art of Practicing Nonmaleficence in Harm’s Way”
Recorded October 25, 2021
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Author Interview: “How Should Exposure Risk to Tactical Personnel Be Balanced Against Clinical and Ethical Rescue Demand?” from 2022-02-01T05:00
Dr Mollie Willliams joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Olaitan Ajisafe: “How Should Exposure Risk to Tactical Personnel Be Balanced Against Clinical and Ethical Rescue ...
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Author Interview: “Why Care-Based, Not Carceral, Approaches to Suspects With Mental Illness Is Key to Whether We Trust Professional or State Authority Ever Again” from 2022-02-01T05:00
Dr Frederic Reamer joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “Why Care-Based, Not Carceral, Approaches to Suspects With Mental Illness Is Key to Whether We Trust Professional or State Authority ...
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Author Interview: “Crisis Intervention Team Program Leadership Must Include Psychiatrists” from 2022-02-01T05:00
Dr Natalie Bonfine joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Mark Munetz: “Crisis Intervention Team Program Leadership Must Include Psychiatrists”
Recorded November 23,...
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Author Interview: “What Law Enforcement Can Learn From Health Care About Moral Injury” from 2022-02-01T05:00
Dr Wendy Dean joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “What Law Enforcement Can Learn From Health Care About Moral Injury”
Recorded October 27, 2021
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Ethics Talk: Why Oral Health Care Is the Way It Is from 2022-01-01T05:00
On this episode of Ethics Talk, editorial fellow Dr Lisa Simon discusses her path from dentistry to medicine and health journalist Mary...
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Author Interview: "Why Should Primary Care Clinicians Learn to Routinely Examine the Mouth?" from 2022-01-01T05:00
Dr Hugh Silk joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Listen
Author Interview: "Promoting Children’s Health Equity With Medical-Dental Integration" from 2022-01-01T05:00
Dr Ana Zea joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored wit...
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Author Interview: "Health Equity Needs Teeth" from 2022-01-01T05:00
Dr Myechia Minter-Jordan joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, Listen
Author Interview: "What Primary Care Innovation Teaches Us About Oral Health Integration" from 2022-01-01T05:00
Ann Claire Greiner joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Listen
Author Interview: "Why Don’t Medicare and Medicaid Cover Dental Health Services?" from 2022-01-01T05:00
Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: Why Don’t Medicare and Medicaid Cover Dental Health Services?
Ethics Talk: Myths of “Merit-Based” Admissions from 2021-12-01T05:00
Senior editorial fellows Drs Jewel Mullen and David Henderson break down myths of “merit-based” admissions and explore how we should pu...
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Author Interview: “How Should Medical School Admissions Drive Health Care Workforce Diversity?” from 2021-12-01T05:00
Dr Rosa Lee joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Should Medical School Admissions D...
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Author Interview: “How Should Medical Schools Foster Equity and Inclusion in Admissions?” from 2021-12-01T05:00
Dr Adela Valdez joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Lala Forrest, Alessandra Ji...
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Author Interview: “Whose Responsibility Is It to Address Bullying in Health Care?” from 2021-12-01T05:00
Lindsey E. Carlasare joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Listen
Author Interview: “Three Things Schools Should Do to Make Advancement Assessment Just” from 2021-12-01T05:00
Dr Tonya Fancher joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Marjorie Westervelt, Dr...
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Author Interview: “What Is the Role of Accreditation in Achieving Medical School Diversity?” from 2021-12-01T05:00
Dr Barbara Barzansky joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Robert Hash Dr Veronica Catanese, and Dr Donna Waecht...
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Author Interview: "What Does It Mean for Medical School Admissions to Be Socially Accountable?" from 2021-12-01T05:00
Dr Mark C. Henderson joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Charlene Green, PsyD, and Candice Chen: “What...
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Author Interview: “Why Disability Must Be Included in Medical School Diversification Efforts” from 2021-12-01T05:00
Dr Dorothy W. Tolchin joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Nicole D. Agaronnik, ...
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Author Interview: “How Should We Build Disability-Inclusive Medical School Admissions?” from 2021-12-01T05:00
Dr Lisa M. Meeks joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Christopher Moreland: “ Listen
Author Interview: “Living Histories of Structural Racism and Organized Medicine” from 2021-12-01T05:00
Dr Matthew Wynia joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Robert Baker: “...
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Ethics Talk: Street Psychiatry for People Experiencing Homelessness from 2021-11-01T04:00
This month on Ethics Talk, Dr Sheryl Fleisch discusses strategies for delivering Listen
Author Interview: "Summer Without Shelter in Tampa During COVID-19" from 2021-11-01T04:00
Madeline J. Hooper joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Lauren C. Linko...
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Author Interview: "How Should Clinicians Help Homeless Trauma Survivors Make Irreversible Surgical Care Decisions?" from 2021-11-01T04:00
Eva V. Regel joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: "How Should Clinicians Help Homeless ...
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Author Interview: "Training Clinicians to Care for Patients Where They Are" from 2021-11-01T04:00
Dr Margaret M. Sullivan joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with
Author Interview: "How Bodily Integrity Is a Core Ethical Value in Care of Persons Experiencing Homelessness" from 2021-11-01T04:00
Dr Jennifer Markusic Wimberly joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr <...
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Author Interview: "Should Employment Division v Smith Be Overturned?" from 2021-11-01T04:00
Dr Jake Greenblum joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Ryan Hubbard: "Should Listen
Ethics Talk: Why “Palliative Surgery” Is Not Like “Jumbo Shrimp” from 2021-10-01T04:00
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Author Interview: "How Should Surgeons Communicate About Palliative and Curative Intentions, Purposes, and Outcomes?" from 2021-10-01T04:00
Dr Charles E. Binkley joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: Listen
Author Interview: Which Priorities Should Guide Palliative Surgical Research? from 2021-10-01T04:00
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Author Interview: "Where’s the Value in Preoperative Covenants Between Surgeons and Patients?" from 2021-10-01T04:00
Robert Ledbetter and Dr Buddy MarterreListen
Author Interview: How Should Surgical Palliative Success Be Defined? from 2021-10-01T04:00
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Author Interview: “Aren’t Surgery and Palliative Care Kind of Opposites?” from 2021-10-01T04:00
Dr Myrick C. Shinall, Jr joins Ethics...
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Author Interview: When Should Neuroendovascular Care for Patients With Acute Stroke Be Palliative? from 2021-10-01T04:00
Drs Michael Young, Robert Regenhardt, and Leonard Sokol join Ethic...
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Ethics Talk: Medical Device Representatives in the Surgical Suite from 2021-09-01T04:00
Editorial fellow Dr Ariel Wampler describesListen
Author Interview: How Should Clinicians and Organizations Assess Risks and Benefits of First-in-Human Implantation of Investigational Devices? from 2021-09-01T04:00
Beatrice L. Brown joins Ethics Talk to discuss hListen
Author Interview: What Should Patients Be Told About Device Representatives’ Roles at the Point of Surgical Care? from 2021-09-01T04:00
Jeffrey BedardListen
Author Interview: What Should the Public Know About Implantable Material and Device Innovation in the US? from 2021-09-01T04:00
Dr Donna-Bea Tillman joins Ethics Talk to discuss her art...
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Author Interview: How Pseudoscience Generated US Material and Device Regulations from 2021-09-01T04:00
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Author Interview: Who, If Not the FDA, Should Regulate Implantable Brain-Computer Interface Devices? from 2021-09-01T04:00
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Ethics Talk: Should Adolescents Be Able to Consent for COVID-19 Vaccinations? from 2021-08-17T18:14:40
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s Editor in Chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Abigail English, Director of the Center for Adolescent Health and Law in Cha...
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Ethics Talk: Fighting Global HIV/AIDS During the COVID Pandemic from 2021-08-17T18:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s Editor in Chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Chris Beyrer, the Desmond M Tutu Professor of Public Health and Human Rig...
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Ethics Talk: Economic Decision Modeling and Reducing Waste in Health Care from 2021-08-01T04:00
Elina E. Listen
Author Interview: How Should Willingness-to-Pay Values of Quality-Adjusted Life-Years Be Updated and According to Whom? from 2021-08-01T04:00
Dr Paul T. Menzel joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article in the August 2021 issue of the Journal: How Should Willingness-to-Pay Value...
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Author Interview: How Does Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Inform Health Care Decisions? from 2021-08-01T04:00
Drs David D. Kim and Anirban <...
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Author Interview: When Disability is Defined by Behavior, Outcome Measures Should Not promote “Passing” from 2021-07-19T17:35:10
Ari Ne’eman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, When Disability is Defined by Behavior, Outcome Measures Should Not promote “Passing,” in the July 2021 issue of the Journal, Visibility...
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Ethics Talk: Could Trusting Science Mean Not Trusting Some FDA Decisions? from 2021-07-02T18:17:50
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s Editor in Chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Caleb Alexander, a Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at Johns Hopkin...
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Author Interview: Dr Nat Mulkey and Dr Carl G. Streed Jr from 2021-07-01T04:00
Dr Nat Mulkey and Dr Carl G Streed Jr join Ethics Talk to discuss their article coauthored with Dr Barbara M. Chubak: "A Call to Update Standard of Care for Children With Differences in Sex Deve...
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Ethics Talk: The Invisibility of Chronic Pain from 2021-07-01T04:00
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Ethics Talk: Building Trustworthiness and Ethical Public Health Practice from 2021-06-21T04:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s Editor in Chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Alicia Best, an Assistant Professor in the College of Public Health at th...
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Ethics Talk: Antibiotic Stewardship During COVID from 2021-06-07T13:38:39
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s Editor in Chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Olivia Kates, a third-year fellow in infectious diseases at the Universit...
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Ethics Talk: Trauma, Trust, and Pharmaceutical Marketing in Native American and First Nation Communities from 2021-06-01T04:00
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Ethics Talk: Equity and Intellectual Property Protection of COVID Vaccines from 2021-05-10T18:05:06
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the journal’s Editor in Chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Professor Ana Santos Rutschman, an Assistant Professor of Law at the St. Lou...
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Ethics Talk: Public Health Messaging Design and Epidemic Management from 2021-05-01T04:00
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Ethics Talk: Public, Civic and Spiritual Health During COVID from 2021-04-30T14:20:10
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the journal’s Editor in Chief, Dr Audiey Kao, Dr Patrick Smith, Associate Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Bioethic...
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Ethics Talk: Anti-Asian Racism During COVID and Beyond from 2021-04-30T13:12:31
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the journal’s Editor in Chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Vivian Shaw, a College Fellow at the Department of Sociology at Harvard U...
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Ethics Talk: Force, Authority, and Harm Minimization from 2021-04-01T04:00
Drs Arya Shah, Ambrose H. Wong, and Carmen Black Park...
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Ethics Talk: Health Hazards of Cost Sharing from 2021-03-22T20:09:43
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s Editor in Chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Ziad Obermeyer, the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Associate Prof...
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Ethics Talk: Surviving COVID Without Water and Other Utilities? from 2021-03-12T13:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Rianna Eckel and Jean Su about the need for a nationwide moratorium on water...
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Ethics Talk: Equal Justice Under Law and Health Equity from 2021-03-08T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Christopher Ogolla about equal protection under the US Constitution to advan...
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Ethics Talk: Health Professions Students and the Future of Health Equity from 2021-03-01T05:00
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Ethics Talk: Refugee Care and Border Abolition from 2021-02-24T15:05:02
Dr Hannah Janeway of the Refugee Health Alliance explains why good health care for refugees and asylum seekers at the US southern border might require border abolition.
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Ethics Talk: Caring for Incarcerated Individuals During COVID-19 Pandemic from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Brie Williams. Dr Williams is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of...
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Ethics Talk: Advance Care Planning and End-of-life Care in the COVID Era from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Helen Chapple. Dr Chapple is a Professor of Nursing, Ethics, and Interdis...
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Ethics Talk: Caring for Homeless People During COVID-19 Pandemic from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Bobby Watts, the Chief Executive Officer at the National Health Care for the...
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Ethics Talk: Immunity Status, Social Privilege, and the Novel Coronavirus from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Kathryn Olivarius. Dr Olivarius is an Assistant Professor of History at S...
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Ethics Talk: Vaccine Ethics and the Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Arthur Caplan. Dr Caplan is the Head of the Division of Medical Ethics at...
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Ethics Talk: Spread of Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia During COVID-19 Pandemic from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Jennifer Ho. Dr Ho is the Director for the Center of Humanities and the A...
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Ethics Talk: Polling, Politics, and Health Policy in the COVID-19 Era from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Mollyann Brodie. Dr Brodie is the Executive Vice President and Chief Oper...
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Ethics Talk: Public Health, Personal Liberties, and COVID-19 from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Professor Lawrence Gostin. Professor Gostin is the founding O’Neill Chair in...
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Ethics Talk: Plight of Workers in Low Wage Jobs and COVID-19 from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Donald Tomaskovic-Devey. Dr Tomaskovic-Devey is the Executive Director of...
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Ethics Talk: White Coats for Black Lives from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Drs. Joniqua Ceasar and Dorothy Charles of WhiteCoats4BlackLives. They joine...
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Ethics Talk: Social Isolation, Loneliness, and COVID-19 from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's Editor in Chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Carla Perissinotto. Dr Perissinotto is an Associate Professor of Medicine...
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Ethics Talk: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Global Climate Crisis from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Andrew Jameton. Dr Jameton is a Professor in the Department of Health Pro...
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Ethics Talk: Virtue Ethics, Moral Authority, and COVID-19 from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video created by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, in which he presents an interview he conducted with the late Dr Edmund Pellegrino 20 years ag...
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Ethics Talk: COVID-19 in US Detention Camps from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Professor Holly Cooper. Professor Cooper is Co-Director of the Immigration L...
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Ethics Talk: Digital Spread of Pandemic Misinformation and Lies from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of video interviews conducted by the Journal’s Editor in Chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Vish Viswanath. Dr Viswanath is a Professor of Health Communication in the...
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Ethics Talk: Pandemic Poetry, Present and Profane from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Rafael Campo. Dr Campo is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard M...
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Ethics Talk: Embodied History, Health Justice, and COVID-19 from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a two-part video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Nancy Krieger. Dr Krieger is a Professor of Social Epidemiology ...
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Ethics Talk: Revitalizing Democracy During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of video interviews conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with American Academy of Arts and Sciences members Antonia Hernández, Wallace Jeff...
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Ethics Talk: Equitable Allocation of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Ruth Faden. Dr Faden is a Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the Johns Hop...
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Ethics Talk: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and Solutions to Avoid Relying on Them from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Professor Debbie Kaminer. Professor Kaminer is a professor in the Department...
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Ethics Talk: Who Are You Voting For, Doc? I'm Voting For You. from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Alister Martin. Dr Martin is an Emergency Medicine Physician, faculty at ...
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Ethics Talk: Blowing the Whistle on ICE or US Immigration and Customs Enforcement from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal & Advocacy Director at Project South, which recent...
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Ethics Talk: COVID Dermatologic Disparities Go More Than Skin Deep from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Jenna Lester. Dr Lester is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the U...
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Ethics Talk: Politics, Policy, and COVID Cartoons from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Matt Wuerker. Matt Wuerker is the staff cartoonist for Politico and...
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Ethics Talk: COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the Health Care Workforce from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s Editor in Chief, Dr. Audiey Kao, with Dr. Arthur Caplan. Dr. Caplan is Head of the Division of Medical Ethics at ...
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Ethics Talk: Unblinding COVID-19 Vaccine Trials from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s Editor in Chief, Dr. Audiey Kao, with Dr. Steven Goodman. Dr. Goodman is Associate Dean of Clinical and Translati...
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Ethics Talk: Crushing Medical Debt During COVID from 2021-02-15T05:00
This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal’s editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Allison Sesso, Executive Director of RIP Medical Debt, a 501(c)3 that works ...
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Ethics Talk: Measuring Racism in Academic Health Centers from 2021-02-01T05:00
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Ethics Talk: Rationing Critical Care During COVID Surge from 2021-01-15T13:23:06
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...
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Ethics Talk: Teaching the Holocaust from 2021-01-01T05:00
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Ethics Talk: Antiracism, Health Equity, and a Post-COVID Future from 2020-12-14T05:00
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 discrimina...
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Ethics Talk: How Do We Know Who’s Dead? from 2020-12-01T05:00
Dr Ariane Lewis discusses how we can navigate uncerta...
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Ethics Talk: Environmental Racism and Health Equity from 2020-11-23T05:00
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...
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Ethics Talk: Hacking Structural Racism in Health Care from 2020-11-10T20:45:02
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 des...
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Ethics Talk: Managing Health Care AI “Megarisks” from 2020-11-01T04:00
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Ethics Talk: Publishing Science and Accelerating Discovery During and After COVID-19 from 2020-10-01T13:56:13
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 adva...
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Ethics Talk: Representation, Sovereignty, and Caring for Native American Patients from 2020-10-01T04:00
On this episode of Ethics Talk, Dr Mary Owen, president...
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Ethics Talk: Nudges, Pushes, and the Ethical Challenge of Behavioral Architecture from 2020-09-01T04:00
Dr Mitesh Patel joins us on this episode of Ethics Ta...
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Ethics Talk: The Ongoing Opioid Epidemic from 2020-08-01T04:00
Dr Travis Reider discusses his own experiences with opi...
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Ethics Talk: Improvising Health Care from 2020-07-01T04:00
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Ethics Talk: Museum Learning to Mitigate Loneliness Among Elders from 2020-06-30T21:03:23
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 lif...
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Ethics Talk: Othering and Belonging in COVID-19 from 2020-06-02T16:00
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, espec...
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Ethics Talk: Portraiture in Clinical Contexts from 2020-06-01T04:00
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Ethics Talk: How to Share Decision Making With People Experiencing Mental Illness from 2020-05-01T04:00
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 ca...
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Ethics Talk: Disability Community Perspectives on COVID-19 from 2020-04-21T18:57:16
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, ...
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Ethics Talk: Health Equity After COVID-19 from 2020-04-16T13:25:54
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.
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Ethics Talk: Beyond the Drape in Surgeon-Anesthesiologist Relationships from 2020-04-01T04:00
In this episode of Ethics Talk, surgeon Dr Sara Scarlet and anesthesiologist Dr Patricia Doerr discuss their perspectives on surgeon-anesthesiologist relationships.
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Ethics Talk: COVID-19 Pandemic Response from 2020-03-16T18:21:20
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 pande...
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Ethics Talk: How to Change Organizational Culture from 2020-03-01T05:00
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...
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Ethics Talk: Providing Compassionate Care for Transmen from 2020-02-01T05:00
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.
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Ethics Talk: Ebola Responses in Colonial Context from 2020-01-01T05:00
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 kn...
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Ethics Talk: How Do We Prepare for Human Gene Editing? from 2019-12-01T05:00
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. S...
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Ethics Talk: Quality of Life Assessments in Reconstructive Transplantation from 2019-11-01T04:00
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-subj...
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Ethics Talk: How Can Decision Science Help Navigate Complex Health Decisions? from 2019-10-01T04:00
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 o...
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Ethics Talk: How Can Global Health Outreach Programs Be Both Sustainable and Educational? from 2019-09-01T04:00
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 t...
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Ethics Talk: What’s a Fair Price for a Drug You’ll Die Without? from 2019-08-01T04:00
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 so...
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Ethics Talk: Which and Whose Values Should Inform Decisions for Unrepresented Patients? from 2019-07-01T04:00
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 Sc...
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Ethics Talk: What Are Clinicians’ Obligations to Patients Who Express Bias or Discrimination? from 2019-06-01T10:00
When a patient’s preference expresses injustice, how should clinicians respond? We discuss individual and organizational responses.
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Ethics Talk: When and How Should ECMO Be Initiated and Removed? from 2019-05-01T10:00
When should ECMO be started and stopped? This month’s Ethics Talk explores ethical challenges of ECMO use in end-of-life care.
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Ethics Talk: Promoting Meaningful Engagement Between Clinicians and Communities from 2019-03-01T11:00
What are key factors for successful partnerships between health care organizations and communities? We discuss strategies for building trust and engaging effectively.
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Ethics Talk: Challenges and Opportunities for AI in Medical Education from 2019-02-01T11:00
How should AI be incorporated into medical education? We discuss how educators can adapt to rapid change in an ethically complex field.
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Ethics Talk: Compassionate and Respectful Care for Undocumented Immigrants from 2019-01-01T11:00
This month on Ethics Talk, we consider challenges clinicians face when caring for undocumented patients and suggest strategies for addressing them.
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Ethics Talk: Why Does It Matter When We Call Abortion “Elective”? from 2018-12-01T11:00
Labels commonly used to describe abortion influence how we think about the procedure. This month on Ethics Talk, we discuss why what we call abortion can be harmful to patients.
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Ethics Talk: Commenting on the “Public Charge” and How to Respond to Federal Policy Change Proposals that Will Affect Patients’ Health from 2018-11-19T18:03:11
In a special mini-episode of Ethics Talk, we explore the implications of a new proposed immigration policy that could have broad effects on immigrants' health with Dr. Rachel Fabi, explain why clin...
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Ethics Talk: How Should Clinicians Respond to False Beliefs in Health Care? from 2018-11-01T10:00
Why is it important for clinicians to respond to false beliefs in health care, and how can they do so effectively? This month on Ethics Talk, Dr. Jennifer McCormick, Dr. Albert Ko, and Dr. Diane Gr...
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Ethics Talk: Why Should Clinicians Care About Nutrition? from 2018-10-01T10:00
What we consume has enormous impact on our susceptibility to disease and disability. This month on Ethics Talk, we talk with Dr. Jessica Fanzo, Dr. David Katz, and Haley Swartz about why clinicians...
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Protecting Patients and Promoting Inclusivity in Precision Health Research from 2018-09-01T10:00
Large precision health initiatives like the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us campaign raise important ethical questions about consent, privacy, and inclusivity. This month on Ethics Talk, ...
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Ethics Talk: Healthy Dying and How It Can Happen from 2018-08-01T10:00
What would it mean for clinicians and health care systems to fully acknowledge dying as something that can be done in a healthy way? This month, we explore how clinicians can help patients and fami...
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Ethics Talk: How Chaplains Communicate About Values in Clinical Settings: An Interview with Rabbi Susan Harris - July 2018 from 2018-07-01T10:00
Chaplains provide spiritual and religious support to patients, families, and clinicians, but they also serve as key communicators, helping mediate between patients and medical teams. This month on ...
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How to Help Burn Patients Survive and Thrive: An Interview with Dr. Monica Gerrek and Andrea Rubin - June 2018 from 2018-06-01T10:00
A patient with a severe burn injury doesn’t just need physical care and support to recover – suffering such injuries can also create significant psychological and emotional challenges. This month o...
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How Trauma Systems Respond to Change - May 2018 from 2018-05-01T10:00
Today’s modern trauma system is a relatively new phenomenon, and trauma surgeons are constantly responding to the changing needs of the populations they serve. This month on Ethics Talk, we talk wi...
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What Does "Surgical Justice" Mean for Plastic Surgeons? - April 2018 from 2018-04-01T10:00
Surgeons can have an impact on patients and communities that goes well beyond the operating room, but their ability -- and obligation -- to make a broader impact isn't always clear. This month on E...
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What Clinicians Can Do to Address Maternal Mortality in the U.S. - March 2018 from 2018-03-01T11:00
How can clinicians respond to the alarmingly high rates of maternal mortality in the U.S., and address racial disparities between black and white mothers? This month on Ethics Talk, we discuss how ...
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Telling Stories of Illness with Comic Art - February 2018 from 2018-02-01T11:00
What can comic art about illness and health care offer patients and families as they navigate health challenges? This month on Ethics Talk, we talk with Brian Fies and Phoebe Potts, the authors of ...
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The Case for Thinking of Violence as a Contagion: An Interview with Dr. Gary Slutkin - January 2018 from 2018-01-01T11:00
Is violence a problem for criminal justice enforcement to handle, or is it a health problem to be addressed by clinicians and other health care professionals? This month on Ethics Talk, we feature ...
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What are the Health Risks of Global Climate Change? - December 2017 from 2017-12-01T11:00
Global climate change has been called the greatest health threat of the twenty-first century, and its effects are already being felt in communities around the world. Clinicians have a central role ...
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Ethics Talk: Bringing “Design Thinking” to Health Care - November 2017 from 2017-11-01T10:00
This month on Ethics Talk, we talk with designer John Meyer about what it means to think about design in health care, hear from Laura Webb, a patient who has taken a central role in creating a heal...
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Ethics Talk: How Clinicians Can Use Their Skills and Authority to Promote Health Equity - October 2017 from 2017-10-01T10:00
This month, we are joined by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, who describes how clinicians worked to expose the water crisis in Flint, and how health professions students can bridge the gap between individu...
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Ethics Talk: What Are Clinicians’ Responsibilities to Incarcerated Patients? - September 2017 from 2017-09-01T10:00
For a patient perspective, AMA Journal of Ethics editor Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux talks with Troy Williams about what it’s like to seek medical care in a prison. We also discuss the benefits of incorp...
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Ethics Talk: What Happens When Bad Outcomes Are Unavoidable? Strategies for Communicating Iatrogenic Consequences in Pediatrics - August 2017 from 2017-08-01T10:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics editor Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux discusses strategies for communicating about iatrogenic outcomes with Dr. Robert Nelson, with a particular focus on how to enlist par...
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Ethics Talk: Creating Social and Community Connections for People with Dementia: An Interview with Beth Soltzberg - July 2017 from 2017-07-01T10:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor James M. Wilkins, MD, a geriatric psychiatry fellow at Partners Healthcare, interviewed Beth Soltzberg, MBA, MSW, about innovative ways to promote hea...
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Ethics Talk: Strategies for Addressing Moral Distress - An Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Epstein - June 2017 from 2017-06-01T10:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Subha Perni, MD, a recent graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, interviewed Elizabeth Epstein, PhD, RN, about strate...
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The Importance of Spiritual Care Referrals for Cancer Patients: An Interview with Dr. Tarris Rosell - May 2017 from 2017-05-01T10:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Renee Mao, a third-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, interviewed Dr. Tarris Rosell, PhD...
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Ethics Talk: Rethinking So-Called “Difficult” Patients: An Interview with Dr. Autumn Fiester - April 2017 from 2017-04-01T10:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor James Aluri, a third-year medical student at Johns Hopkins University, interviewed Dr. Autumn Fiester, PhD, about strategies for defusing “difficult” ...
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Ethics Talk: Responding to Language Barriers in Health Care - An Interview with Dr. Donald A. Barr - March 2017 from 2017-03-01T11:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Zujaja Tauqeer, a third-year medical student at Harvard Medical School, interviewed Donald A. Barr, MD, PhD, about caring for patients with limited En...
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Ethics Talk: What Are the Boundaries of Medicine and Who Decides? An Interview with Dr. James Mohr - February 2017 from 2017-02-01T11:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor William R. Smith, a third-year medical student at Emory University School of Medicine and a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Notr...
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Ethics Talk: Responding to Trafficked Persons in Health Care Settings - An Interview with Dr. Ranit Mishori - January 2017 from 2017-01-01T11:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Terri Davis, a third-year MD student at West Virginia University School of Medicine, interviewed Ranit Mishori, MD, about how to respond to incidents ...
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Ethics Talk: The Limits and Possibilities of Biomedical Enhancement - An Interview with Dr. Allen Buchanan - December 2016 from 2016-12-01T11:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Jacquelyn Nestor, a fifth-year MD/PhD student at Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine, interviewed Allen Buchanan, PhD, about how we can safely explor...
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Ethics Talk: Providing Supportive and Affirming Care to Transgender Patients - An Interview with Dr. Aron Janssen - November 2016 from 2016-11-01T10:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Cameron Waldman, a second-year medical student at Albany Medical College, interviewed Aron Janssen, MD, about how healthcare professionals can better ...
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Ethics Talk: Mental Health Challenges for Physicians - An Interview with Dr. Louise Andrew - October 2016 from 2016-10-01T12:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Sarah Waliany, a fourth-year medical student at Stanford University School of Medicine, interviewed Louise Andrew, MD, JD, about mental health challen...
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Ethics Talk: On the Need for Multiple Perspectives in Health Care - An Interview with Lachlan Forrow - September 2016 from 2016-09-01T12:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Colleen Farrell, a fourth-year medical student at Harvard Medical School, interviewed Lachlan Forrow, MD, about the benefits of interprofessional coll...
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Ethics Talk: Clinical and Research Ethics in Pathology - An Interview with Theonia Boyd - August 2016 from 2016-08-01T12:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Margaret Cocks, MD, PhD, a third-year resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital, interviewed Theonia Boyd, MD, about ethical issues pathologists face when c...
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Ethics Talk: Implementing Health Care Reform in Rwanda - An Interview with Agnes Binagwaho - July 2016 from 2016-07-01T12:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Abraar Karan, MD, and MPH candidate at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, interviewed Agnes Bingowaho, MD, PhD, about practical challenges R...
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Ethics Talk: Promoting Medical Trainees’ Mental Health - An Interview with Srijan Sen - June 2016 from 2016-06-01T12:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Marguerite Reid Schneider, a fourth-year medical student at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, interviewed Srijan Sen, MD, PhD, about how m...
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Ethics Talk: How Health Care Ethics Committees Engage Clinical Practice and Professionalization - An Interview with Joseph J. Fins - May 2016 from 2016-05-01T12:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Karel-Bart Celie, a second-year medical student at Columbia University School of Medicine, interviewed Joseph J. Fins, MD, about the work of ethics co...
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Ethics Talk: Supported Decision Making for Persons with Disabilities - An Interview with Susan Mizner - April 2016 from 2016-04-01T12:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Emily Johnson, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, interviewed Susan Mizner, JD, about some merits, drawba...
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Ethics Talk: Medical-Legal Partnerships and the Promise and Challenge of Physician Advocacy - An Interview with Megan Sandel - March 2016 from 2016-03-01T12:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Arina Evgenievna Chesnokova, MPH, a third-year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, interviewed Megan Sandel, MD, MPH about how physicians c...
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Ethics Talk: Organ Distribution Policy Controversies and Options - An Interview with Dorry Segev - February 2016 from 2016-02-01T12:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Natasha Dolgin, an MD/PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, interviewed Dorry Segev, MD, PhD, about organ allocation po...
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Ethics Talk: Patient-and Family-Centered Care’s Reach - An Interview with Kelly Parent - January 2016 from 2016-01-01T12:00
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Trisha Paul, a second-year medical student at the University of Michigan Medical School, interviewed Kelly Parent about what makes patient- and family...
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