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Ethics Talk: Antibiotic Stewardship During COVID

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Olivia Kates about appropriate use of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Olivia Kates, MD is a third-year fellow in infectious diseases at the University of Washington in Seattle. 

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Recorded on May 17, 2021

Infectious Disease Medical Knowledge Patient Care

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Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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: Social Isolation, Loneliness, and COVID-19

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Carla Perissinotto about the health consequences of social isolation and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Carla Perissinotto, MD, MHS is an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Geriatrics Patient Care

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Medicine and Society
Jul 2021

Questioning Biomedicine’s Privileging of Disease and Measurability

Camille Kroll, MA
Adhering too strictly to biomedical thinking about diagnosis can prevent clinicians from empathically engaging with patients and helping them navigate their illness experiences.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E537-541. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.537.
Medicine and Society
Jul 2021

How Pharmaceuticals Mask Health and Social Inequity

Enrico G. Castillo, MD, MSHPM and Joel Tupper Braslow, MD, PhD
Pharmaceuticals make symptoms and biological drug targets more visible but can render individual and community suffering less visible.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E542-549. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.542.
Art of Medicine
Sep 2020

Data, Decisions, White Coats

Christine Lynn Chen
This pen and ink drawing reimagines a white coat in the context of medicine’s realistic, not idealized, dynamism.
AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(9):E818-820. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.818.
Medical Education
Jun 2022

Everyone Is Harmed When Clinicians Aren’t Prepared

Thalia Arawi, PhD, Ghassan S. Abu-Sittah, MBChB, and Bashar Hassan
Decolonization of curricula in health professions is key to preparing clinicians to respond with care and competence to vulnerabilities and disease burden exacerbated by conflict.
AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(6):E489-494. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.489.