Dr Pamela B. Teaster joins Ethics Teaching and Learning to discuss public health ethics teaching during the waning COVID-19 pandemic.

An educational initiative is described in which medical and bioethics students observe health care in an urban jail for two days and reflect on their learning.

Dr Jonathan Treem joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Joel Yager and Jennifer L. Gaudiani: “A Life-Affirming Palliative Care Model for Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa.”

Physician health programs for impaired or disruptive physicians are not coercive but part of the social contract governing professional licensure.

Compassionate release policies offering early release or parole to seriously ill incarcerated patients are underutilized and should be advocated for.

Low-cost in vitro fertilization (LCIVF) is better than no infertility treatment in countries that prohibit adoption and third-party reproductive assistance.

There is much to be gained by integrating ethics and EBM, focusing on the implications of uncertainty for clinical practice and exploring the effect a clinician’s values have on acquisition and application of evidence.

An undercurrent in all debates about allocation of health care resources to the poor is the matter of access to and coverage of health care for immigrants, particularly low-income and undocumented ones.

Hospital medicine must expand its mission to include the teaching of medical ethics, professionalism, and communication to trainees during clinical rounds.