Dr Paris Adkins-Jackson proposes how to measure racism in academic health centers, as one responsibility of medicine is to rebuild trust with marginalized communities.
Madeline J. Hooper joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Lauren C. Linkowski, Dr Lynette Menezes, and Dr Jordan Messler: "Summer Without Shelter in Tampa During COVID-19."
Dr Jeremy Ackerman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “Tactical Emergency Casualty Care and the Art of Practicing Nonmaleficence in Harm’s Way.”
Dr Natalie Bonfine joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Mark R. Munetz: “Crisis Intervention Team Program Leadership Must Include Psychiatrists.”
Dr Amy Watson joins Ethics Talk to discuss how crisis intervention teams can motivate efficiency and equity in tactical responses to 911 calls and what community mental health intervention might look like when we think beyond the limits of law enforcement response.
Furthering clinicians’ understandings of how daily practice can respond to Black patients' experiences can help restore trust and mitigate racial and ethnic health inequity.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(6):E480-486. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.480.
Dr Zoe Tao and Dr Michael Oldani join Ethics Talk to discuss how learning about transgenerational trauma can help clinicians motivate health equity, especially among historically marginalized groups like Native American and First Nations communities.
Jessica H. Ballou, MD, MPH and Karen J. Brasel, MD, MPH
Calls to expand palliative care education have been explicit since the 1990s, but palliative care training in surgery remains too narrowly focused on end of life.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E800-805. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.800.
Editorial fellow Dr Ariel Wampler describes what few know about material and device regulation, and Dr Adriane Fugh-Berman explains why we should ask more questions about device representatives’ intraoperative roles during implantations.
Jeffrey Bedard joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: "What Should Patients Be Told About Device Representatives’ Roles at the Point of Surgical Care?"