Private equity companies have no ethical or legal duties to patients and strive to maximize financial returns for their investors.

One driver of the corporatization of medicine has been private equity firms’ acquisitions of physician practices.

Preethi Subbiah joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Richard M. Scheffler: “When Does Private Equity Ownership of Physician Practices Violate ‘First, Do No Harm’?”

Teddie Bernard joins Ethics Talk to discuss their cartoon: Childless by Choice.

Clinicians’ expressions of doubt about patients’ beliefs can undermine patient-clinician relationships.

This article draws on opinions in the AMA Code and applies them to evidence-based practice.

Dr Amber R. Comer joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Which Values Should Guide Evidence-Based Practice?”

Dr Emily Roberts joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Innovative Designs Can Help Ease Ethical Tension in Good Dementia Caregiving and Decision-Making.”

The European Dementia Village is a pioneering health care site, and a US-based model is the Dementia Friendly City Center, which integrates service delivery into adaptive reuse and urban revitalization.

Dr Jeannie P. Cimiotti joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Kimberly Adams Tufts, Lucia D. Wocial, and Elizabeth Peter: “How Should Focus Be Shifted From Individual Preference to Collective Wisdom for Patients at the End of Life With Antimicrobial-Resistant Infections?”