AMA Journal of Ethics^®

This visual abstract is based on an article from the July 2023 issue of the journal.

Sources of patient demand are also sources of light pollution that compromise rest.

What did a hospitalist physician learn from a patient about how to slow down?

Forever a Work in Progress visually explores complexities of isolation as one consequence of navigating a culturally hyphenated identity. 

Three digital drawings invite interpretations of a cornered figure’s orientations to space, color, and its own boundaries and self.  

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.