A fearless child inspires compassion, particularly regarding our clinical, political, and ethical orientation to ongoing practices of separating children from parents at the US southern border.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(2):E166-167. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.166.
Two photographs of caregivers walking through a Honduran jungle to visit patients in their homes literally and figuratively represent barriers to health care access.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(1):E63-65. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.63.
Multiple pieces of reclaimed pallet wood are sculpted into a lateral cerebrum and a gradient of burned wood visually represents a crisis among health care professionals.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(1):E61-62. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.61.
Antonio Yaghy, MD, Jerry A. Shields, MD, and Carol L. Shields, MD
Two digital photo-paintings address AI applications in medicine narratively and visually, with special emphasis on communication, compassion, and competence.
AMA J Ethics. 2019; 21(11):E1009-1013. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2019.1009.
Word Choices is a mixed-media digital illustration that explores the importance of clinicians’ word choices during their encounters with patients. Clinicians often face ethical questions about sharing information with vulnerable patients.
AMA J Ethics. 2019; 21(10):E904-905. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2019.904.
A graphic memoir documents clinical and ethical disagreements and decision points throughout a paramedic team’s time with an incarcerated patient in labor.
AMA J Ethics. 2019; 21(10):E902-903. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2019.902.