AMA Journal of Ethics

This painting memorializes the lives of people who died in the COVID-19 pandemic and people who have died from police brutality.

A drawing explores equilibrium through music, medicine, and art.

Debate continues on how to frame tobacco and nicotine product regulation from a children’s rights perspective.

A self-portrait in bold colors depicts an experience of imposterhood in medicine.

Humor can help motivate positive interactions amidst fast-paced clinical encounters but can alienate colleagues when weaponized to promote assumed superiority of an individual or group.

Humor studies have traditionally lived in the rather unfunny world of philosophy departments. Thankfully, psychologists and neuroscientists study mechanisms of humor and laughter, too.

The Second City collaborates with health care organizations to help clinicians navigate uncertainties of health care work. Insights and exercises are offered here that readers can use with their teams and students.

In this cartoon, a guilt-ridden, heavily scarred surgeon prepares to atone for his team’s failed attempts to save an innocent child victim of a mass shooting.

This humorous take on experts’ disagreement about the care of a patient suggests how not to proceed.

During medical school, mirroring how resident physicians spoke and behaved became part of a professional induction that even came with a uniform.