AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Treatment-resistant schizophrenia can create a high disease burden for some patients, making it hard to get good outcomes.

Palliative psychiatry can facilitate compassionate resolution of ethical conflicts in end-of-life care decision making with persons with substance use disorders.  

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

Telesurgery is a form of global health diplomacy, and negotiations between LMICs and HICs can have transnational consequences.

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. 

Diagnostic utility of weight and body mass index is widely overestimated, and their use as health and wellness measures can be sources of iatrogenic harm. 

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

Underlying ideological foundations of stigma and equipment inadequacy include thin-centrism and inadequate representation of fat people in health care organizational leadership.  

Editorial Fellows Astrid Floegel-Shetty and Kratika Mishra join Ethics Talk to discuss the development of this month’s theme issue on medicine’s overreliance on BMI, and fat stigma researcher Ragen Chastain talks about how patients can be harmed by BMI surgical guidelines and what to do if it happens to you.