Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused.

Mandating processes that are not evidence based generates distress among patients and clinicians, so physician advocacy in national, state, and local policymaking is key.

On this episode of Ethics Talk, Zahra H. Khan, Yoshiko Iwai, and Dr Sayantani DasGupta outline how “abolition medicine” can motivate critical responses to medicine’s expressions of hyper-punitive, deeply racialized exercises of state authority.

Russyan Mark Mabeza joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Betial Asmerom, Dr Rupinder Legha, and Vanessa Nuñez: “An Abolitionist Approach to Antiracist Medical Education.”

Dr Thalia Arawi joins Ethics Talk to discuss the rise of states of “chronic emergency,” how health care workers can be protected when working in conflict zones, and how the international community needs to move beyond declarations to support those affected by war and conflict.

Kristen N. Pallok and David A. Ansell’s “Should Clinicians Be Activists?” highlights how physician activists risk retaliation from “economically and socially” privileged physician leaders and organizational leadership who “have been trained to comply” with structural inequity.

Dr Kristen N. Pallok joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr David A. Ansell: “Should Clinicians Be Activists?”

Carlos Martinez joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Lauren Carruth, Hannah Janeway, Lahra Smith, Katharine M. Donato, Carlos Piñones-Rivera, James Quesada, and Seth Holmes: “How Should Clinicians Express Solidarity with Asylum Seekers at the US-Mexico Border?”

Dr José G. Pérez-Ramos joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Adriana Garriga-López and Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz: “How Is Colonialism a Sociostructural Determinant of Health in Puerto Rico?”