PROM data can contribute to evidence-based, shared decision making and just access to gender-affirming surgical care.

Use of body mass index as a health care metric is controversial, especially in candidacy assessments for gender-affirming surgery.  

Patients experiencing homelessness and mental illness face conditions and circumstances that deserve focused ethical and clinical attention.

Aislinn C. Rookwood and Mariah Abney join Ethics Talk to discuss their article, coauthored with Hannah S. Butler-Robbins, Danielle Marie Westmark, and Dr Regina Idoate: “Arts-Based Research Methods to Explore Cancer in Indigenous Communities.”

Culturally responsive, arts-based methods can enhance research and education across the cancer-control continuum with Indigenous persons.

Sustainable food services are key dimensions of health care organizations’ civic and stewardship responsibilities to individuals and communities.

The AMA Code and Principles provide guidance on how to educate and counsel patients about meat consumption and about their advocacy roles in reducing meat production.

Dr Michael J. Oldani joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “Papal Doctrines’ Deep Trauma Legacies in Minoritized Communities.”

Clinicians can support shared decision making by assessing patients’ knowledge, eligibility for screening, and preferences for engagement—active, collaborative, or passive—in the decision making process.

Professor Wendy E. Parmet joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Claudia E. Haupt: “Holding Clinicians in Public Office Accountable to Professional Standards.”