Of all infectious disease events, pandemics could result in significant human depopulation in this Anthropocene epoch or even in the next few centuries. Existential factors that exacerbate pandemic risk include global warming, overpopulation, habitat loss, permafrost thawing, geopolitical conflict, and…
Most physicians do not see, or learn to see, nuclear war threat mitigation as within the scope of their professional duties. This commentary on a case argues there are 2 reasons why physicians, in particular, should draw on their unique…
This commentary on a case builds on recent literature on climate change, health, and human extinction to argue in favor of a new clinical specialty: extinction medicine. If based on precise application of scientific findings about species extinction, disaster prevention…
This article draws a parallel between ethical reasons why people alive today have obligations to members of future generations and ethical reasons why physicians have obligations, besides helping improve patients’ quality of life, to help some patients confront their own…
Is there an important ethical difference between a global catastrophe that causes human extinction and one that does not? This commentary on a case introduces 3 approachesóequivalence, further-loss, and pro-extinctionistóin responding to this question. In particular, focus is placed on…
This case report describes a man in his 40s who presented to the emergency department with reported palpitation and breathlessness for the preceding 2 hours.
Importance Experiences of marginalization by gender minority people may predispose them to poorer mental health outcomes than their cisgender peers. Understanding mental health conditions in transgender (trans) and nonbinary people is an essential step in addressing potential inequities in outcome for…
This JAMA Insights discusses the evidence related to the US Surgeon General’s Advisory on alcohol and cancer risk.
This case report describes a 46-year-old goat farmer with a 2-week history of a painful nodule on the dorsal aspect of his right fifth finger.
A 78-year-old man with a history of nonmelanoma skin cancers presented with left-sided upper and lower facial weakness. What is your diagnosis?
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