What can comic art about illness and health care offer patients and families as they navigate health challenges? This month on Ethics Talk, we discuss why comic art is a unique and powerful medium for communicating about difficult and emotional encounters with illness and health care.
What are key factors for successful partnerships between health care organizations and communities? We discuss strategies for building trust and engaging effectively.
Drs Katrina Bramstedt and Ana Iltis discuss the development of QoL assessment tools to help patient-subjects considering reconstructive transplantation.
Dr James Van Arsdall shares his experience of sitting for a portrait after his treatment for oral cancer, and Dr Mark Gilbert describes how he came to do portraiture in clinical settings.
In this special edition of Ethics Talk, Dr Uché Blackstock joins us to discuss COVID-19 morbidity and mortality outcomes inequity by race and what needs to change now and postpandemic. Transcript available.
Kelly Leonard, executive director of insights and applied improvisation at Second City Works, relates how improvisation can help clinicians build relationships with patients and improve their outcomes.
Dr Evguenia S. Popova joins Ethics Talk to discuss how collaborations between academic health centers and arts institutions can help students build their professional skills in empathic responsiveness and communication.
Isabelle M. Mikell joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Courtney L. Savage Hoggard and Dr Harald Schmidt: "What Should Be Roles of Federal Clinician Governors in Motivating Equity in Locally Coordinated Triage Protocols?"
