AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Negative health consequences from costly care are referred to as financial toxicity and should be included in informed consent discussions.

Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin joins Ethics Talk to consider how members of different US Supreme Courts have interpreted the US Constitution in ways that have supported or undermined liberty in surprising ways.

Professor Katie Watson joins Ethics Talk to discuss what clinicians need to know about changes to the post-June 2022 legal, ethical, and clinical landscape of abortion care in the US.

Mismanagement of hospital waste can release harmful, deleterious contaminants into soil, water, and air and can have far-reaching environmental and public relations consequences.

Government- and industry-funded campaigns for medication disposal do work, but responsibility often falls on local health care organizations to provide education and services.

Dr Shawn G. Gibbs joins Ethics Talk to discuss industrial hygiene, biocontainment, and how to build more sustainable health systems. 

Health care generates a lot of waste that enters landfills, oceans, and incinerators and adversely affects communities close to waste processing and disposal areas.

The volume of hazardous health care waste is a global problem and its disposal can be environmentally damaging.

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.