J. Corey Williams, MD, MA, Ashley Andreou, MD, MPH, and Susan M. Cheng, EdLD, MPP
Faculty who lack skill in addressing negative bias in learning environments can erode safety, especially among underrepresented students, trainees, and patients.
AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(1):E6-11. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2024.6.
Whitney V. Cabey, MD, MSHP, MA, Nicolle K. Strand, JD, MBE, MPH, and Erin Marshall, MSS, LSW
An emerging and important goal of health professions training is to develop a workforce equipped to address structural determinants of patients’ health.
AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(1):E48-53. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2024.48.
Dr Jennifer Randall joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Tasha R. Wyatt: “Centering Justice in Health Professions Education by Owning Limitations of Anti-Bias Checklists.”
Dr Jamaji C. Nwanaji-Enwerem joins Ethics Talk to discuss his collection of images: Intentionally Retained, Intentionally Fragmented, Accidentally Retained, and Accidentally Fragmented.
Dr Emma Cooke joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Holland Kaplan: “How Should Technology-Dependent Patients’ Care Be Managed Collaboratively to Avoid Turfing?”
The language of “placement” is key in health care organizations’ admissions and discharge planning policies and practices. Where patients are thought to belong has substantial clinical and ethical heft in the everyday operations of the US health services sector. Turfing is generally regarded as an inappropriate reference to patients whose needs and vulnerabilities prompt us to want to make them someone else’s responsibility. Turfing can happen in inpatient settings when one care team looks to divert responsibility for a patient’s care to another team, in outpatient settings when clinicians refuse to take care of, say, patients insured by Medicare or Medicaid, and in discharge planning to rehabilitation or skilled care facilities. This theme issue investigates clinical and ethical criteria for determining what it means to be a person who belongs somewhere under a clinician’s watch in health care.