This group of paintings portrays beauty and strength among frontline clinicians in a hectic emergency room during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this oil painting, personal protective equipment is uncomfortable, but perhaps less uncomfortable than knowing our safety depends on others.

Madeline J. Hooper joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Lauren C. Linkowski, Dr Lynette Menezes, and Dr Jordan Messler: "Summer Without Shelter in Tampa During COVID-19."

Pharmaceuticals make symptoms and biological drug targets more visible but can render individual and community suffering less visible.

Sheltering in place is impossible for persons to whom “safer at home” does not apply.

In the 1910s, the American Medical Association fought quackery promoted in pamphlets for drugs and treatments for everything from teething to epilepsy.

Using emergency departments as revenue streams could violate ethical and legal standards about hospitals’ roles in communities.

Since clinics are economic hubs in some communities, consequences of a clinic closing or moving are numerous.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement could affect low-income patients’ access to medicines in signatory countries by reducing generic competition.

Legal inconsistencies and variation in end-of-life options generate disparities in care for unrepresented patients.