AMA Journal of Ethics

The Volunteer Physicians for Vietnam Program (1966-1973) influenced both physicians-in-training and the environments in which they were immersed.

Within the United States, many “immersions” happen in student-run indigent care clinics that serve vulnerable populations.

Medications now challenge clinicians to consider market influences such as pharmaceutical manufacturing, pricing strategies, and patients’ resources.

Advances in CEA methodology might integrate equity at the cost of transparency.

In 1984, Hatch-Waxman tried to balance drug innovation against availability; it was tested in the US Supreme Court in 2013.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics offers guidance on stewardship and professionalism.

Closed formularies can be justified when they enable spending on other socially valuable aims, but they can single out poor patients.

This collection of drawings offers a visual exploration of compassion, respect, and dignity in clinical relationships and encounters.

Louisiana has a subscription model for hepatitis C treatment, but costly medications challenge states’ capacities to cover patients.

Overall utilization of the few biosimilars currently available to patients has been limited.