Regina Idoate, PhD, Aislinn C. Rookwood, MPH, Sophia A. Quintero, MPH, Watie White, MFA, Shelby Larson, MPH, Arturo Aceves, MD, and Keyonna M. King, DrPH, MA
Healthy Housing Omaha, an environmental health nonprofit, partnered with an artist and a newspaper to raise awareness of lead poisoning.
AMA J Ethics. 2022; 24(7):E599-610. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.599.
When confidential medical information can prevent a serious harm to a third party, the patient’s prima facie right to confidentiality must be balanced against the physician’s prima facie obligation to prevent serious harm to that third party.
AMA J Ethics. 2015; 17(9):819-825. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.9.ecas1-1509.
Dr Kristen R. Choi joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Bantale Ayisire: “When Experiencing Inequitable Health Care Is a Patient’s Norm, How Should Iatrogenic Harm Be Considered?”
Successful implementation of initiatives to improve screening and access to health-promotion activities at minority-serving religious institutions requires partnering with faith-based organizations, adapting interventions, and leveraging organizational infrastructure and social networks.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(7):E643-654. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2018.643.
Violence is typically seen as a problem to be addressed by criminal justice enforcement – but are we seeing the issue the wrong way? This month on Ethics Talk, we discuss what it means to think about violence as an epidemic, and how this frame might transform the way our society responds to violence.
Groupthink is an ethical problem because unconscious bias or the status quo may prevent appropriate medical response to trafficking victims and survivors.
AMA J Ethics. 2017; 19(1):91-97. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.1.msoc3-1701.