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Ethics Talk: COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the Health Care Workforce

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Arthur Caplan about hesitancy among US health care workers to take COVID-19 vaccines.

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Arthur Caplan, PhD is head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Dr Caplan is an unpaid advisor for Moderna, developer of a COVID-19 vaccine that has received emergency use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration. He is also a paid advisor for Accenture. 

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: Could Trusting Science Mean Not Trusting Some FDA Decisions?

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Caleb Alexander about the US Food and Drug Administration's controversial decision to approve aducanumab for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.

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G. Caleb Alexander, MD, MS is professor of epidemiology and medicine at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Recorded on June 22, 2021

 

Neurology Patient Care

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Conflict of Interest Disclosure

Dr Alexander is past chair and current member of FDA's Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee. He is a co-founding principal and equity holder in Monument Analytics, a health care consultancy whose clients include the life sciences industry as well as plaintiffs in opioid litigation. He was also a member of OptumRx's National Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.

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: Embodied History, Health Justice, and COVID-19, Part 1

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Nancy Krieger about the population health impacts of historical injustices and structural racism.

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Nancy Krieger, PhD is a professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.

Part 2 of this conversation is here.

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Professionalism

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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: Vaccine Ethics and the Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Audiey Kao, MD, PhD, talks with Arthur Caplan, PhD, about the development, production, and use of potential vaccines against the novel coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2.

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Arthur Caplan, PhD is the head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine.

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Infectious Disease 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: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and Solutions to Avoid Relying on Them

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Prof Debbie Kaminer about vaccine mandates and other policy solutions to promote herd immunity against COVID-19.

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Debbie Kaminer, JD is a professor in the Department of Law at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College.

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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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Case and Commentary
Sep 2019

How Should We Decide Whether and When Some Care Is Better Than No Care?

Rachel Koch, MD, John G. Meara, MD, DMD, MBA, and Anji E. Wall, MD, PhD
Single-procedure interventions with minimal follow-up and clear quality-of-life gain are well suited for surgical mission trips. But not all risks and benefits are easily assessed.
AMA J Ethics. 2019; 21(9):E729-734. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.729.
State of the Art and Science
Feb 2017

Reasonableness, Credibility, and Clinical Disagreement

Mary Jean Walker, PhD and Wendy A. Rogers, BMBS, PhD
When is a source credible and how do beliefs about a source’s credibility influence assessments of evidence?
AMA J Ethics. 2017; 19(2):176-182. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.2.stas1-1702.
Viewpoint
Jun 2008

Medical Care for the Elderly: Should Limits Be Set? Commentary 1

Daniel Callahan, PhD
Should old folks who have lived their lives be allowed to place a huge economic burden on the young by using a disproportionate amount of limited Medicare resources for medical care?
Virtual Mentor. 2008; 10(6):404-407. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2008.10.6.oped1-0806.
Case and Commentary
Dec 2008

Role of Schools in Monitoring Student Health

Benjamin Caballero, MD, PhD
This case poses two important questions. First, do schools have the right or the duty to monitor students’ health status measures and require action from parents and, second, what is the role of a student’s primary care physician in this context?
Virtual Mentor. 2008; 9(12):790-793. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.12.ccas1-0712.
Policy Forum
Dec 2007

Mandatory Reporting of Noncommunicable Diseases: The Example of The New York City A1c Registry (NYCAR)

Clarissa G. Barnes, Frederick L. Brancati, MD, MHS, and Tiffany L. Gary, PhD, MHS
To combat the rising incidence of type 2 diabetes, New York City requires laboratories with electronic reporting capacity to upload data on hemoglobin A1c measurements to a city department of health registry.
Virtual Mentor. 2007; 9(12):827-831. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.12.pfor2-0712.