Clinicians with obligations to patients and to organizations often assess patients in law enforcement for both therapeutic and nontherapeutic purposes.

La policía, los fiscales, los abogados defensores, los jueces y las juntas de libertad condicional buscan reformar el trabajo con los pacientes.

Dr Amy Watson joins Ethics Talk to discuss how crisis intervention teams can motivate efficiency and equity in tactical responses to 911 calls and what community mental health intervention might look like when we think beyond the limits of law enforcement response.

A pesar de la disponibilidad de buenos planes de estudios nacionales sobre salud bucal para los estudiantes de medicina, la mayoría de los médicos no están preparados para identificar cánceres bucales o evitar derivaciones innecesarias.

Some patients who need general medical care before a dental intervention can suffer increased risk for poor outcomes if they have compromised access to care.

Poor oral health has been neglected as a public health threat, despite recognition as “epidemic” in scale by the US Office of the Surgeon General.

High-resolution geographic information system tools map all general dentistry and periodontal practice locations as key sources of health inequity.

On this episode of Ethics Talk, Dr Lisa Simon discusses her path from dentistry to medicine, and health journalist Mary Otto guides us through a history of oral health care in the United States.

Despite availability of good national oral health curricula for medical trainees, most physicians are ill-equipped to identify oral cancers or avoid unnecessary referrals.

COVID-19 teaches us how to design a unified health care system that transcends historical precedent.