AMA Journal of Ethics

Correctional facilities’ physician employees are at risk for burnout, posttraumatic stress, and suicide. Prison reform should address needs of inmates and staff.

Concrete protocols for supporting trainees include convening team meetings, tracking bias incidents, collecting data, and initiating protective changes in culture.

How should evidence be used to interpret and inform whether to accommodate patients’ requests for clinicians with specific traits?

An orthopedic surgery physician’s experiences suggest strategies for addressing patients’ discriminatory behaviors or speech.

A “simplicity strategy” suggests expressing respect for persons and empathy and models inclusive group inquiry, epistemic humility, and justice.

This issue considers the ethical complexities of responding to patients’ unjust bias in individual patient encounters and of responding to patients’ requests for certain types of patient-clinician concordance.

How should physicians researching life-sustaining technologies consider their duties to enrolled subjects?

CPR has become default treatment for all patients in cardiac arrest. The history of how this happened demonstrates the power of CPT coding.

Linda’s story suggests ways to take better care of terminally and chronically ill patients at home by listening in different ways.

Case analysis illuminates strategies clinicians can use to reconcile competing duties to patients on ECMO.