Dr Jim Withers and Dave Lettrich join Ethics talk to discuss how street outreach programs help mitigate harms of drug use among people experiencing homelessness.

A paradigm shift in circadian science is underway, exposing ethical tensions from a legacy of pervasive neglect of circadian disorders.

Systematic deviation from truth can arise during data collection, methodological application, and outcomes analysis.

Merits of more antimicrobial prescription oversight should be weighed against risks to patients and communities of untreatable bacterial infections.

Some allopathic clinicians’ biases influence the information they draw upon to make decisions and offer recommendations.

Underlying ideological foundations of stigma and equipment inadequacy include thin-centrism and inadequate representation of fat people in health care organizational leadership.  

Diagnostic utility of weight and body mass index is widely overestimated, and their use as health and wellness measures can be sources of iatrogenic harm. 

This article considers which risks AI-facilitated surgical robotics pose for safety, confidentiality, informed consent, and surgical training. 

Ageism is so structurally integrated and normalized in US health care that it is generally unnoticed by many clinicians. 

What is health care for? Recovery strategies, techniques for becoming calm, and reminders about why stillness matters can help us find a few answers.