This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about how comparing different conceptions of health can help us interrogate just exactly what a One Health approach to health offers…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about critical theory in health professions education. The featured guest is Dr John Chenault, an associate professor and the director of…
Inpatient psychiatric units’ policies and restrictions for suicide prevention can exacerbate harm rather than promote wellness. This commentary on a case examines ethics concerns about prevention policies that overly rely on liberty restriction, as expressed in the design of inpatient…
Inpatient psychiatric units should be therapeutic environments that support dignity and recovery. When adverse outcomes (eg, self-harm, violence) happen in these settings, clinicians and administrators can face litigation and other pressures to prioritize risk management over supporting patients’ access to…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about why turfing, despite being such a common, troublesome ethical issue, receives such little attention in the literature, how clinicians can…
Reliable, adequate supply of essential items, including quality-assured medicines, is hard to maintain in refugee camps in low- and middle-income countries. Disruption of medicine supply chains delays treatment for displaced persons and drives procurement of poor-quality products, often from unauthorized…
The Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) is a national system maintained by the US federal government to deliver medical supplies during emergencies. In the past, the SNS has been used to mitigate public health consequences of tragedies, such as Hurricane Katrina…
There has been little attention given to roles played by human trafficking in health care organizations’ supply chains. Hand sanitizers and gloves, for example, might be produced by forced labor, which tends to increase in prevalence during pandemics, mass violence,…
When any drug is in short supply, it must be rationed. Recent increases in the frequency of shortages require more rationing by clinicians. Most health systems have policies on managing drug shortages, but transparency of criteria according to which specific…
One Health a holistic approach to health that brings the moral status of animals and environments into consideration is understood as a “professional imperative,” a value-laden obligation that flows from the scope and objectives of professional roles. In this article,…
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