AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Reasons to actively promote the interests of health workers earning low wages are numerous and urgent.

This article offers a risk management standpoint on environmental services as a mission-critical function of any health care organization.

Good team-based care requires acknowledgement of power, compensation, and job security inequity among team members.

Dr Noelle Driver joins Ethics Talk to discuss the status of health care workers earning low wages, and Pheobe Cohen shares how her own experience in health care helps motivate her artistic practice as a comic maker.

One patient’s experience of life-encompassing iatrogenic harm from being institutionalized emphasizes Italy’s comparative success, relative to the United States, in recovering from decades of deinstitutionalization policy.

Underrecognition and lack of awareness about how to help patients with painful menstruation constitute injustice and a health care harm.

Neglected examples of iatrogenic harm involve persons with severe mental illness who seek inpatient care.

Transgender people commonly experience discrimination from clinicians, which directly contributes to worse mental and physical health outcomes.

Dr Helen Chapple joins Ethics Talk to discuss the harms of poor end-of-life care and how to avoid them.

Algorithms use race as an epidemiological shorthand, but clinically influential historical, social, and cultural determinants of health are still sources of variability.