Dr Veronica Hutchison joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Eve Espey: “How Should IUD Placement Pain Be Described and Managed?”

Dr Suzanne Minor joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Arianna Tapia and Dr Sarah E. Stumbar: “Abortion in the Nineteenth Century Through the Lens of Ann Lohman.”

Teddie Bernard joins Ethics Talk to discuss their cartoon: Childless by Choice.

Dr Mónica Lalanda joins Ethics Talk to discuss her comic: “There’s No Heartbeat.”

Dr Olivia Kates talks about appropriate use of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Direct sterilization by means of tubal ligation is morally unacceptable in Catholic bioethics but other procedures that result in indirect sterilization may be acceptable under certain conditions.

Suggests to medical students what forms of self-disclosure are acceptable during clinical encounters and when self-disclosure might be interpreted by patients as taking attention away from them.

Suggests to medical students what forms of self-disclosure are acceptable during clinical encounters and when self-disclosure might be interpreted by patients as taking attention away from them.

Physicians can fulfill their professional responsibilities to patients when those responsibilities conflict with moral commitments of the hospital or clinic where the patient encounter occurs.

Physicians can fulfill their professional responsibilities to patients when those responsibilities conflict with moral commitments of the hospital or clinic where the patient encounter occurs.