AMA Journal of Ethics^®

When a clinician refuses to do a procedure consistent with standard of care for a patient, legal resources can be helpful.

Abolition medicine and reproductive justice are synergistic approaches that advance a radical vision of a racially just world.

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

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

“Very important persons” care contributes to multitiered, racially segregated health service delivery streams that influence clinicians’ conceptions of what patients deserve from them.

Professor Katie Watson joins Ethics Talk to discuss what clinicians need to know about changes to the post-June 2022 legal, ethical, and clinical landscape of abortion care in the US.

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

Clinicians using governing authority to make public health policy are ethically obliged to draw upon scientific and clinical information that accords professional standards.

This article canvasses states’ legal prohibitions and challenges to them and considers consequences for clinicians and patients.