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Ethics Talk: Health Hazards of Cost Sharing

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Ziad Obermeyer about the potential impact on mortality of cost-sharing practices of health insurers.

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Ziad Obermeyer, MD, MPhil is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

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Recorded on March 9, 2021

 

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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewee reports having equity stakes in Deep Health Dandelion Health and Berkeley Data Ventures as well as receiving speaking and consulting fees from Independence Blue Cross and Anthem.

Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.

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Ethics Talk: Plight of Workers in Low Wage Jobs and COVID-19

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Donald Tomaskovic-Devey about the social and economic hurdles confronted by those among us in low-wage jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, PhD is the executive director of the Center for Employment Equity at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.

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History of Medicine
Feb 2021

How Ancestral Trauma Informs Patients’ Health Decision Making

Tina K. Sacks, PhD, Katie Savin, MSW, and Quenette L. Walton, PhD, LCSW
Would you question health decisions made by a 37-year old Black woman whose great-grandfather died in the US Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee?
AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(2):E183-188. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.183.
Art of Medicine
Feb 2021

Voting for Our Health, in Color

Alicia Yvonne Christy, MD, MS
This watercolor painting looks to our 20th-century ancestors who fought to establish their, and many of our, voting rights.
AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(2):E206-207. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.206.
Original Research
Mar 2021

African American Nurses’ Perspectives on Genomic Medicine Research

Rachele M. Hendricks-Sturrup, DHSc, MSc, MA, Lauren M. Edgar, MSN Ed, RN, Tracey Johnson-Glover, MSN, RN, and Christine Y. Lu, PhD, MSc
Recent popular interest in Henrietta Lacks has prompted interest in better engaging AA nurses and communities.
AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(3):E240-251. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.240.
Medicine and Society
Jun 2021

Historical Trauma and Descendants’ Well-Being

Reeya A. Patel, MS and Donna K. Nagata, PhD
This article addresses intergenerational trauma transmission, focusing on Japanese American and Southeast Asian American communities.
AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(6):E487-493. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.487.
Medicine and Society
Jul 2021

Invisibility of “Gender Dysphoria”

Nicolle K. Strand, JD, MBE and Nora L. Jones, PhD
Fostering transgender patients’ sense of agency should be a clinical and ethical priority.
AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(7):E557-562. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.557.
Art of Medicine
Jul 2021

Wayfinding

Brent R. Carr, MD
This charcoal gesture drawing, inspired by a mid-adolescent nonbinary patient, investigates a caregiver’s and patient’s journey from despair to hope.
AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(7):E582-583. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.582.