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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: White Coats for Black Lives

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Drs Joniqua Ceasar and Dorothy Charles about systemic racism, police brutality, and the role of health professionals in securing racial justice and health equity.

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Joniqua Ceasar, MD is a resident physician in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dorothy Charles, MD is a resident physician in family medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria.

Both are on the national working group of WhiteCoats4BlackLives.

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Family Medicine Internal Medicine Pediatrics Patient Care Professionalism

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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewees 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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Ethics Talk: Spread of Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia During COVID-19 Pandemic

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Jennifer Ho about understanding and combatting the spread of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia during this COVID-19 pandemic.

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Jennifer Ho, PhD is the director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts and a professor of ethnic studies at University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Professionalism

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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
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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Medicine and Society
Dec 2018

Three Things Clinicians Should Know About Disability

Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD
Clinicians can practice disability humility by developing social understandings of disability. This can help clinicians improve communication and express respect for patients’ authority about their experiences.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(12):E1181-1187. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.1181
History of Medicine
Mar 2019

An Architectural History of US Community Hospitals

Jeanne Kisacky, PhD, MA, MArch
Practices changed when hospitals became places of recovery rather than death.
AMA J Ethics. 2019; 21(3):E288-296. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.288.
Medicine and Society
Nov 2019

What Hand Transplantation Teaches Us About Embodiment

Brock Bahler, PhD
Current QoL conversations in HTx could be enhanced by a phenomenological account of temporality, embodiment, and intersubjectivity.
AMA J Ethics. 2019; 21(11):E996-1002. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.996.
Medicine and Society
Nov 2019

What Do Unusual Faces Teach Us About the Ethics of Recognition?

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, PhD
Drawing on the film Wonder, this article examines how a narrative of community acceptance offers sustaining relationships for people with unusual facial appearance.
AMA J Ethics. 2019; 21(11):E1003-1008. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.1003.
History of Medicine
May 2018

The Evolving Surgeon Image

Heather J. Logghe, MD, Tyler Rouse, MD, Alec Beekley, MD, and Rajesh Aggarwal, MD, PhD
Modern surgeons are diverse, socially adept, and differ in other important ways from the stereotype of a technically gifted white male with poor bedside manner.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(5):492-500. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.5.mhst1-1805.
Case and Commentary
Feb 2008

Assessing Demand for Wheelchair Use

Owen J. Murray, DO, MBA
Some patients who have been injured or had back or lower extremity surgery while incarcerated require temporary use of a wheelchair. At times, getting these inmates to return to the general ambulatory population can be a challenge.
Virtual Mentor. 2008; 10(2):84-87. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2008.10.2.ccas1-0802.
Case and Commentary
Jan 2017

Taking Up the Mantle of Human Trafficking Education: Who Should Be Responsible?

Carrie A. Bohnert, MPA, Aaron W. Calhoun, MD, and Olivia F. Mittel, MD, MS
Research and training are needed so that physicians are able to identify human trafficking victims and refer them to appropriate trauma-informed treatment.
AMA J Ethics. 2017; 19(1):35-42. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.1.ecas4-1701.