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

The risks of misinformation being spread through online patient forums can be mitigated by communication strategies aimed at physicians and organizations.

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

Dr Matthew K. Wynia joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Robert Baker: “Living Histories of Structural Racism and Organized Medicine”

Heightened privacy and confidentiality stakes generate unique anonymity and nondisclosure policies and practices for HIV.

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

Transitions in relabeling personalized medicine as precision medicine, precision health, or wellness genomics reflect shifting the locus of responsibility for health from individuals to clinicians and in shifting focus from genetic risk to genetic enhancement.

During one 2014 Ebola epidemic, arrival of “safe burial” teams was often delayed. Some buried their loved ones themselves, which undermined containment efforts.

Vaping has been thought to be a safe, effective smoking cessation aid, but little evidence supports its value in mitigating tobacco use.

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s argument for disability as a sociocultural resource challenges the commonsense understanding of disability as a deficit.