Dr Liam G. McCoy joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Zainab Doleeb, Jazleen Dada, and Catherine Allaire: “Underrecognition of Dysmenorrhea Is an Iatrogenic Harm.”

Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity.

The Nordic model policy option for addressing commercial sex—which exempts sellers from criminal penalties—offers several potential advantages.

Disclosure of resident involvement in procedures should be integral to informed consent to ensure patient understanding and voluntary decision making.

Decriminalization of the sex trade speaks to medical ethics by reducing sex workers’ vulnerability to violence, exploitation, stigma, and trafficking.

Trauma care presumes informed consent for treatment, but resident supervision is required within a training structure of graduated responsibility.

Calibrating a machine learning model with data from a local setting is key to predicting psychosis outcomes. Clinicians also need to understand an algorithm’s limitations and disclose clinically and ethically relevant information to patients.

Equal access is a goal even when patients present with taboo illnesses. But, the date of a patient’s last drink still matters.

Invisibility of racial inequity and gender inclusion in clinical research means key features of disease etiology and symptom presentation are unaccounted for.