This article examines how the AMA Code of Medical Ethics addresses different kinds of waste generated by health care delivery streams in an era of climate change.

Health care generates a lot of waste that enters landfills, oceans, and incinerators and adversely affects communities close to waste processing and disposal areas.

Ryan Sallans, MA joins Ethics Teaching and Learning to discuss how to make health care spaces welcoming for LGBTQ+ patients.

When health care professionals encounter child abuse and neglect, they tend to experience a range of emotions, such as anger, sadness, and frustration.

Intergenerational trauma has deep roots, which require clinicians to understand historical and cultural context when working with vulnerable children.

How society and medicine discussed and responded to child abuse changed dramatically in 1962. Since that time, the problem’s fuller scope has been revealed.

This drawing considers the importance of understanding history’s role in contextualizing many patients’ present-day health care experiences.

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

While transgender health care has moved beyond “gender identity disorder” and “gender dysphoria” as mental illnesses, gender incongruence continues to be a source of oppression.

This article shares one transgender person’s numerous health care encounters over 20 years, as both a patient and a professional.