AMA Journal of Ethics^®

This multipaneled comic follows a woman robot preparing for a breast examination. Oil “leakage” recurs in the comic, suggesting its ethical importance in metaphorically representing a patient’s stress responses.

This comic invites readers to consider aesthetic and ethical intersections of how odds might be presented—even exaggerated—to cultivate fear in public health messaging. 

A short film considers ethical and clinical implications of the phenomenon of pseudo-stoicism, especially in medicine.

Health professional students often attend lectures equating resiliency with self-care.

This collection visualizes the health sector’s climate change contributions, which will ultimately harm us all.

This comic considers how patients work to use the right vocabulary to help their physicians help them.

This article considers 3 works by artists who were directly or indirectly affected by this type of childhood abuse.

This comic shares a true story of a physician’s fraught interaction with and physical examination of a patient.

This drawing considers the importance of understanding history’s role in contextualizing many patients’ present-day health care experiences.

Meditation on images of corporeal suffering were once part of a “spiritual ordeal” that can still provoke a kind of transformation key to health professionalism.