When patients are unable to express their wishes and do not have surrogates or advance directives, which and whose values should inform decision making for them? We discuss ethical complexities of caring for unrepresented patients.

Dr Madeline Ward joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Why We Need to Stop Labeling Behaviors Influencing a Person’s Weight Ideal or Healthy."

Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Fat Norms and the AMA.”

AMA Journal of Ethics editor Audiey Kao, MD, PhD, interviewed Richard Pan, MD, MPH, about how, as a physician and legislator, he seeks to protect public health in light of recurrent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases.

AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Karel-Bart Celie, a second-year medical student at Columbia University School of Medicine, interviewed Joseph J. Fins, MD, about the work of ethics committees and consultants as they pursue professionalization and respond to changes in health care organization and practice.

Dr Lauren Hale joins Ethics Talk to discuss sleep health and help us learn how we can all sleep better.

Dr Erica Kaufman West joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Which Factors Matter Most When Using Vaccines to Combat Zoonoses?”

Dr Jake Young joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: "How Should Wet Market Practices Be Regulated to Curb Zoonotic Disease Transmission?”

Dr Gregory C. Gray joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Laura A. Pulscher and Hisham O. Alsharif: “Five Things Clinicians Need to Know About Zoonotic Viral Spillover and Spillback.”

Dr Vivek H. Murthy joins Ethics Talk to discuss loneliness as a public health threat and the connection between loneliness, public health responsiveness, and the health of our democracy.