Mistakes and lessons from AMA history situate the AMA now for antiracist leadership in the health care sector.

For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life.

The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust.

The Holocaust differs from other instances of mass murder in that it was medically sanctioned genocide.

Research and training are needed so that physicians are able to identify human trafficking victims and refer them to appropriate trauma-informed treatment.

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

A gynecologic oncology ethics education program intended to engage students and foster open exchange was designed after review of ethics consults at a tertiary cancer center over a 15-year period.

Training in a segregated health care system means that health professions students and trainees learn bias and experience helplessness and burnout.

Unchallenged supra-geographic segregation perpetuates racial medical mythology, exacerbates myopia in health professions practice and education, and perpetuates injustice.

Clinical needs of patients with disabilities are seen with the “medical gaze,” a depersonalized lens of evidence-based medicine and of presumed objectivity.