AMA Journal of Ethics

This watercolor painting looks to our 20th-century ancestors who fought to establish their, and many of our, voting rights.

This article features a digital photo painting of a clinician during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Risk managers can help patient-subjects and clinician-researchers make informed novel device implantation decisions in the absence of preclinical trial data.

Ethical dimensions of risk management are illuminated in AMA Code content on discharge planning.

Clinical decision supports create ethically complex risks and need to align patients’ and caregivers’ professed values.

Benches represent collective unity and are places of reflection for individual and communal decision making.

Patients leaving against medical advice draw attention to intersections of tort law, federal and state regulations, and clinical ethics.

Hospital lawyers’ practices shape risk management operations, influence clinicians’ morale, and affect patient care.

Psychiatric emergencies, coping stress reactions, and iatrogenic injuries are not responded to with the same vigor as acute medical decompensation. That needs to change.