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Ethics Talk: COVID Dermatologic Disparities Go More Than Skin Deep

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Jenna Lester about racial and ethnic disparities in dermatologic care and its contributions to health inequities during this COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. 

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Jenna Lester, MD is an assistant professor of dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Ethics Talk: Virtue Ethics, Moral Authority, and COVID-19

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In this special video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talked with Dr Edmund Pellegrino (1920-2013) about personal virtues in shaping ethical behavior and moral authority in promoting the common good.

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Edmund Pellegrino, MD was professor emeritus of medicine and medical ethics at Georgetown University.

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Ethics Talk: Embodied History, Health Justice, and COVID-19, Part 2

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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 1 of this conversation is here.

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Case and Commentary
Dec 2002

Loss of Frozen Embryos

Linda MacDonald Glenn, LLM
Virtual Mentor. 2002;4(12):355-356. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2002.4.12.hlaw1-0212.
Case and Commentary
Mar 2016

How Should Clinicians Treat Patients Who Might Be Undocumented?

Jeff Sconyers, JD and Tyler Tate, MD

Clinicians must avoid violating professional ethical principles and patients’ legal rights and they may not ever discriminate. So, what does that mean in practice?

AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(3):229-236. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.3.ecas4-1603.
In the Literature
Apr 2021

What Might a Good Compassionate Force Protocol Look Like?

Constance E. George, MD, MA
This article considers force use in clinical settings after a triggering event—a behavioral or medical crisis—and considers how it should be implemented.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(4):E326-334. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.326.