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MLPs in the VHA help minimize ethical tensions that tend to come up when diagnosing and documenting disability.

Dr Cynthia Geppert joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Should MLP Clinicians and Attorneys Help Veterans Secure Disability Benefits When Health Records Documentation Is Insufficient?”

AMA Code opinions about collaborative care, health inequity, financial barriers to health care access, and physician responsibilities for safe patient discharge from health care facilities can apply to MLPs.

Keegan D. Warren joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr William M. Sage: “Why MLP Legal Care Should Be Financed as Health Care.”

Expanding MLPs’ positive health impact requires secure funding.

Poor-quality antimicrobial medicines continue to proliferate across supply chains, threatening patients’ health and safety, especially in low- and middle-income regions.

Resistance has dogged infectious disease treatment processes since we started using modern antimicrobials.

Devin Hunt joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Olivia S. Kates: "A Brief History of Antimicrobial Resistance.”

Patients living in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) shoulder the greatest burden of infections caused by antimicrobial-resistant pathogens.

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