AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Costs partly determine organizational robotics, but questions remain about whether and to what extent they should influence care decisions. 

This article suggests strategies for how to disclose the nature and scope of resident surgeon involvement in managing intraoperative care.

This article considers which risks AI-facilitated surgical robotics pose for safety, confidentiality, informed consent, and surgical training. 

Healthist views about body shape and weight are oppressive and lead to pernicious harms, especially to members of vulnerable groups. 

Use of body mass index as a health care metric is controversial, especially in candidacy assessments for gender-affirming surgery.  

This commentary on a case considers a transgender patient’s mental health and risk for DVT in ethical decision making about feminizing gender-affirming hormone therapy.

Tension between realistic goals and unrealistic views about how to achieve them is compounded when patients are eager to revise a prior surgeon’s gender-affirming procedure.

Sustainable food services are key dimensions of health care organizations’ civic and stewardship responsibilities to individuals and communities.

When physicians fail to model behaviors they advocate for others, trust is eroded. 

Perpetration-induced traumatic stress should be understood as present, not just posttraumatic, stress disorder because retraumatization is part of slaughterhouse workers’ jobs.