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Ethics Talk: Virtue Ethics, Moral Authority, and COVID-19

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In this special video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talked with Dr Edmund Pellegrino (1920-2013) about personal virtues in shaping ethical behavior and moral authority in promoting the common good.

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Edmund Pellegrino, MD was professor emeritus of medicine and medical ethics at Georgetown University.

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Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.

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Ethics Talk: Pandemic Poetry, Present and Profane

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Rafael Campo about the healing value of poetry during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

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Rafael Campo, MD, MA is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and poetry section editor for the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Art of Medicine
Sep 2018

The Precision Portrait

Samuel Rodriguez, MD and Nick Love, PhD
This portrait of a child against a backdrop of health data suggests how a patient’s individuality can be obscured when precision medicine is used in decision making and developing target therapies.
AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(9):E891-893. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.891.
Art of Medicine
Sep 2018

Kaleidoscope

Audrey Gray, MD, MPH
This photograph of a kaleidoscope of potentially life-saving and potentially life-threatening pills suggests ethical conflict inherent in clinicians’ strivings to meet patients’ pain relief needs without contributing crises of drug diversion.
AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(9):E894-896. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.894.
Personal Narrative
Sep 2018

Graphic Medicine and the Limits of Biostatistics

Sathyaraj Venkatesan, PhD and Sweetha Saji, MA
Graphic pathographies can illustrate how overreliance on statistics can obscure the clinical relevance of patients’ experiences of anxiety when they’re presented with prognoses.
AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(9):E897-901. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.897.
Art of Medicine
Nov 2018

When I Take Off My White Coat…

Joseph Gascho, MD
These paired photographs of what physicians do when they wear and don’t wear their white coats show a range of activities physicians do to sustain their well-being and dispel false beliefs about their personal lives.
AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(11):E1094-1099. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.1094.
Art of Medicine
Apr 2019

Journeys

Madeleine Schachter, JD
Patients’ experiences of darkness and doubt can be replaced by a sense of buoyancy and lightness. Color and movement convey a patient’s sense of striving, aspiration, and optimism.
AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(4):E370-371. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.370.
Medical Education
Apr 2019

Which Nanobasics Should Be Taught in Medical Schools?

Joel C. Sunshine, MD, PhD and Amy S. Paller, MD, MSci
Growth in nano-based approaches to cancer diagnostics and therapeutics creates need to include nanotoxicology in medical education.
AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(4):E337-346. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.337.
Art of Medicine
May 2019

Moral Distress Containment Through an Artist’s and Art Psychotherapist’s Lens

Georgina Morley, PhD, MSc, RN and Annie Sharon Fox, MA
This series of 3 paintings of figures in a bath explores emotional responses of persons experiencing or responding to others’ moral distress. Intricately tied together and connected through time and space, the bodies represented suggest a complex web of relationships between clinicians and patients.
AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(5):E457-460. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.457.
Art of Medicine
May 2019

Fading Mind of a Patient With Alzheimer’s

Laci Hadorn
This artwork represents—via a puzzle—physical and emotional experiences of brain deterioration.
AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(5):E455-456. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.455.