How can clinicians respond to the health challenges associated with global climate change? This month on Ethics Talk, we learn about how art can communicate the health effects of climate change, the challenges that hot and humid days pose for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and what the global health risk of climate change means for individual clinicians.

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

Dr Susan Veldheer joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Daniel R. George: "Strategies to Help Health Care Organizations Execute Their Food System Leadership Responsibilities.”

Dr Brent M. Kious joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Ryan H. Nelson: “Does It Matter Whether a Psychiatric Intervention Is ‘Palliative’?”

 

Dr Awais Aftab joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “What Should Clinicians Know About Palliative Psychopharmacology?”

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.

Dr John Chenault joins Ethics Talk to explain one historical view of critical theory in health professions education.

Chioma Onuoha joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Jennifer Tsai and Rohan Khazanchi: “Using Critical Pedagogy to Advance Antiracism in Health Professions Education.”

Dr John Chenault joins Ethics Teaching and Learning to discuss how he uses critical theory to prepare health professions students to better distinguish representation from reality.

Dr Christy A. Rentmeester joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “You Are What You Eat . . . and What You Take Orally, Intravenously, or Topically”