Ari Ne’eman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “How Should We Address Warehousing Persons With Serious Mental Illness in Nursing Homes?”

Turfing is a colloquialism that refers to what clinicians do to patients whose needs do not fit neatly and tidily into typical clinical placement protocols.

This manuscript canvasses clinical, legal, and ethical dimensions of turfing and dumping that deserve investigation.

Introduction of an intervention that reduces the perceived risk of a given behavior may cause a person to increase risky behavior—this is called “risk compensation.”

Recommendation for induced lactation in nonbiological mothers is widespread in the medical literature. To resist offering the service for nongestating lesbian mothers bespeaks potential discrimination.

When called to consult or to testify at “sexually violent predator” hearings, medical professionals’ primary task is adapting recognized medical terminology to the SVP label; they are asked to shoehorn medical diagnoses into ill-fitting legal language.

Physicians should extend gender-affirming treatment to gender-nonconforming people, who experience discrimination and health disparities.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics opinions related to discrimination and disparities in health care.

International medicine importation raises ethics and safety questions that should be considered when weighing affordability against risk of harm.

Nisha Quasba joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Elliot Vice: “What Should Prescribers and Policy Makers Know About US Drug Importation?”