Ethics Talk: Antibiotic Stewardship During COVID
In this video edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Olivia Kates about appropriate use of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ethics Talk: Equity and Intellectual Property Protection of COVID Vaccines
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Prof Ana Santos Rutschman about the impact of intellectual property regimes on domestic and global responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ethics Talk: Trauma, Trust, and Pharmaceutical Marketing in Native American and First Nation Communities
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about how transgenerational trauma can help clinicians motivate health equity, especially among historically marginalized groups like Native American and First Nations…
What Should US Policymakers Learn From International Drug Pricing Transparency Strategies?
This article analyzes differences in prescription drug pricing transparency practices among 3 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member nations: the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada. Specifically, this article compares these countries’ policies on list and net price disclosures and…
What Should “Shopping” Look Like in Actual Practice?
In health care, lack of transparency about the cost of health care services to patients during clinical encounters has contributed to increased costs and high out-of-pocket expenses. Federal policy has responded to the need for more transparency and spurred discussion…
Informed Consent as a Means of Acknowledging and Avoiding Financial Toxicity as Iatrogenic Harm
Negative health consequences stemming from the financial burden of care on patients and their loved ones are documented as financial toxicity in the literature, and these consequences should be included in informed consent discussions during patient-clinician interactions. However, codes of…
Ethics Talk: How to Avoid Hyper Medicalization and Iatrogenic Child Abuse
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about medical child abuse, sites of pediatric neglect, and how clinicians can best carry out their responsibilities as mandatory reporters. The…
Ethics Talk Series on US Abortion Care After Dobbs: Wait. What? Some Clinicians Agree to Watch Their Patients Get Sicker?
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about “observed decompensation” as a post-Dobbs clinical and ethical phenomenon and its influences on health professionalism. The featured guests are Dr…
Ethics Talk: Hacking Structural Racism in Health Care
In this video edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks 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.
How Does Law Support Compassionate Mental Health Practice?
Compassion has long been a bulwark of mental health law. Civil commitment, guardianship, mandated clinical intervention, diversion courts, involuntary medication, insanity defenses, and aid-in-sentencing evaluations are all elements of compassionate mental health practice. Parens patriae (the state as parent) and…
