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Ethics Talk: Antibiotic Stewardship During COVID

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Olivia Kates about appropriate use of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Olivia Kates, MD is a third-year fellow in infectious diseases at the University of Washington in Seattle. 

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Recorded on May 17, 2021

Infectious Disease Medical Knowledge Patient Care

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Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.

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Ethics Talk: White Coats for Black Lives

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Drs Joniqua Ceasar and Dorothy Charles about systemic racism, police brutality, and the role of health professionals in securing racial justice and health equity.

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Joniqua Ceasar, MD is a resident physician in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dorothy Charles, MD is a resident physician in family medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria.

Both are on the national working group of WhiteCoats4BlackLives.

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Family Medicine Internal Medicine Pediatrics Patient Care Professionalism

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Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.

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Ethics Talk: Vaccine Ethics and the Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Audiey Kao, MD, PhD, talks with Arthur Caplan, PhD, about the development, production, and use of potential vaccines against the novel coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2.

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Arthur Caplan, PhD is the head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine.

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Infectious Disease Patient Care

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Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.

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Ethics Talk: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and Solutions to Avoid Relying on Them

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Prof Debbie Kaminer about vaccine mandates and other policy solutions to promote herd immunity against COVID-19.

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Debbie Kaminer, JD is a professor in the Department of Law at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College.

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Art of Medicine
Mar 2019

Why We Need a Music Player in Every Patient Room

Doug Bradley and Omar Viswanath, MD
Entrainment can distract from pain and offer a means of witnessing important health care experiences.
AMA J Ethics. 2019; 21(3):E303-308. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.303.
History of Medicine
Mar 2008

Holistic Medicine and the Western Medical Tradition

Sneha Mantri
The history of Western medicine chronicles a tension between ideologies of patient care—the holistic Hippocratic view and the specialization view, with a depersonalization of the patient that coincides with the rise of pathologic anatomy in the early modern era.
Virtual Mentor. 2008; 10(3):177-180. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2008.10.3.mhst1-0803.
Medicine and Society
May 2018

What Is the Institutional Duty of Trauma Systems to Respond to Gun Violence?

Sara Scarlet, MD and Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr., MD, MPH
Pervasive and recurrent gun violence compels health care organizations to integrate violence prevention, intervention, and recidivism reduction as critical dimensions of good trauma care.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(5):483-491. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.5.msoc2-1805.
Case and Commentary
Jan 2017

Human Trafficking, Mental Illness, and Addiction: Avoiding Diagnostic Overshadowing

Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH, Marti MacGibbon, CADC-II, ACRPS, and Joseph Stoklosa, MD
Clinicians diagnosing and treating potentially trafficked patients with co-occurring addiction and mental illness should guard against expressing negative biases.
AMA J Ethics. 2017; 19(1):23-24. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.1.ecas3-1701.
Letter to the Editor
May 2018

Metaphorically or Not, Violence Is Not a Contagious Disease

Michael B. Greene, PhD
Violence reduction efforts should be modeled on noncontagious diseases, which have as their root cause environmental determinants, not contagious diseases.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(5):513-515. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.5.corr1-1805.
Letter to the Editor
May 2018

Response to “Metaphorically or Not, Violence Is Not a Contagious Disease”

Gary Slutkin, MD, Charles Ransford, MPP, and Daria Zvetina
Violence reduction efforts should focus on interrupting transmission of violence and changing behaviors rather than mitigating environmental risk factors.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(5):516-519. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.5.corr2-1805.