This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast on public health messaging lessons from the HIV epidemic with Dr Olivia S. Kates, a third-year fellow in infectious diseases at…
This activity explores clinician involvement in and resistance to the Third Reich and the Holocaust. This topic is explored through a medical school in the Warsaw ghetto, human subject research on starvation that was not conducted by Nazi clinicians, and…
In this video edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Ziad Obermeyer about the potential impact on mortality of cost-sharing practices of health insurers.
In this video edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Rianna Eckel and Jean Su about the need for a nationwide moratorium on water, electricity, and other utilities shutoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast on compassionate uses of force, behavioral response teams, and harm minimization with Aryah Shah, MD, a third-year psychiatry resident at Brigham…
This commentary argues that financial incentives for employees who meet body mass index requirements reinforce healthism, a false and oppressive ideology. Healthism is the view that personal health is the vehicle of well-being and that health is achieved by taking…
The process of being granted asylum is complex, often taking months and years. Asylum seekers face high risk of being denied asylum in the United States. As medical and psychological evaluations assist in achieving successful asylum outcomes, human rights asylum…
Physicians are ethically bound to respond to undocumented, underinsured, and uninsured patients’ health needs, even those demanding complex, expensive interventions, such as organ transplantation. A social medicine skill set of structural competency, allyship, accompaniment, and activism is required to best…
Latinx individuals represent a linguistically and racially diverse, growing US patient population. Raciolinguistics considers intersections of language and race, prioritizes lived experiences of non English speakers, and can help clinicians more deftly conceptualize heterogeneity and complexity in Latinx health experiences….
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.
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