Fostering transgender patients’ sense of agency should be a clinical and ethical priority.

Chicago Street Medicine implements HHC to improve health outcomes and care continuity for patients experiencing homelessness.

Dr Whitney Riley Linsenmeyer joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Should Clinicians Care About How Food Behaviors Express Gender Identity?”

Underlying ideological foundations of stigma and equipment inadequacy include thin-centrism and inadequate representation of fat people in health care organizational leadership.  

Dr James Lokken joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Thong Lee, Emily Mauer, Christopher Wagner, James Sanders, and Michael J. Oldani: “How Rohingya Language Educational Videos Help Improve Refugee Interprofessional Health Service Delivery in Milwaukee.”

Dr Eric Plemons joins Ethics Talk to discuss facial feminization surgery and how clinicians can best support patient decisions about gender-affirming care.

Kathleen Wong joins Ethics Talk to discuss her comic: “Lit, Unread, Unrested.” 

Dr Zachary G. Jacobs joins Ethics Talk to discuss his comic: “Isolation, Connection, and Learning to Slow Down.”

 

This commentary on a case considers whether and to what extent refusal to care for patients insured by Medicare is a form of turfing.

Dr Kaarkuzhali B. Krishnamurthy joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Should Physicians Be Able to Refuse to Care for Patients Insured by Medicare?”