Ethics Talk: Rationing Critical Care During COVID Surge
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Matthew Wynia about implementation of crisis standards of care in response to the dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases that is pushing the limits of US hospitals' critical care capacity.
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Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH is a professor of medicine and public health at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and directs its Center for Bioethics and Humanities.
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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.
Ethics Talk: White Coats for Black Lives
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.
Ethics Talk: Embodied History, Health Justice, and COVID-19, Part 1
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Nancy Krieger about the population health impacts of historical injustices and structural racism.
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Nancy Krieger, PhD is a professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
Part 2 of this conversation is here.
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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.
Ethics Talk: Equitable Allocation of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Ruth Faden about how to fairly distribute any potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccine when supply is limited.
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Ruth Faden, PhD, MPH is a professor of biomedical ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
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Infectious Disease Professionalism
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Dr Faden is principal investigator of a Wellcome Trust funded-project on COVID-19 and Nigeria. She is also a member of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on the Immunization Working Group on COVID-19 Vaccines in the World Health Organization.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.