Dr John Banja joins us to discuss the promises and perils of artificial intelligence in health care applications, including potential “megarisks” posed by AI tools themselves.

Allocating resources for interventions requires consensus among stakeholders with a plurality of perspectives about how to weigh antimicrobial stewardship interventions’ risks and benefits.

Ethical dimensions of risk management are illuminated in AMA Code content on discharge planning.

AI models might advance human welfare in unprecedented ways, but progress will not occur without substantial risks that will have to be managed.

Psychiatric emergencies, coping stress reactions, and iatrogenic injuries are not responded to with the same vigor as acute medical decompensation. That needs to change.

Framing risk management goals as patient centered and evidence based helps align them with goals of ethics.

Training should be implemented to respond to clinical staff members’ concerns about trans patients occupying sex-segregated spaces and to help mitigate anti-trans bias.

All harm resulting from negligence is iatrogenic, but not all iatrogenic injury is negligent.

Lloyd Duplechan joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr David Sine: “Roles of Environmental Services Workers’ Wages and Status in Patient Safety.”

This article offers a risk management standpoint on environmental services as a mission-critical function of any health care organization.