AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Terri Davis, a third-year MD student at West Virginia University School of Medicine, interviewed Ranit Mishori, MD, about how to respond to incidents of suspected human trafficking in health care settings.

Dr Christy A. Rentmeester joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Lessons for Ethics From the Kingdom of Fungi.”

Physicians caring for trafficking victims should know about applicable criminal and human rights law and mandatory reporting requirements.

A philosophical analysis of how physician actions and treatment goals are defined and interpreted and how understanding this process can affect the success of the clinical encounter.

The principle of double effect and proportionate reason can be a useful way of assessing actions as moral or immoral.

Some clinicians and researchers believe that quality-of-life measurements are flawed, and using them in clinical decision making is dangerous.

The default principle—that someone is free to do what he or she desires in the absence of a compelling reason why he or she should not—may make it possible to resolve ethical disputes without recourse to a particular moral framework.

Distinctions between treatment and enhancement, and between supposedly authentic and inauthentic tools, often inform judgments about what is morally acceptable in sport.

Narrative ethics derives its ethical force from continually comparing and critiquing new narratives against existing narratives that guide the way we live.

The author describes some of the diverse training paths that may lead to becoming a bioethicist and how the breadth of this field is useful in exploring many ethical questions in the field of medicine.