AMA Journal of Ethics

Patients’ perceptions of how much input they have in making health decisions influence therapeutic alliance and outcomes.

Fostering transgender patients’ sense of agency should be a clinical and ethical priority.

Public and self-stigma negatively influence patients’ quality of life, employment, and housing opportunities.

Dr Nat Mulkey and Dr Carl G. Streed Jr join Ethics Talk to discuss their article coauthored with Dr Barbara M. Chubak, "A Call to Update Standard of Care for Children With Differences in Sex Development."

Hyperfocus on measurability can result in evidentiary overreliance and undervaluation of patients’ experience narratives.

Some clinicians cite absence of long-term data to justify not fully deferring surgery for children with DSD, and legal restrictions of early procedures are also at play.

For an adolescent patient with extreme anorexia nervosa, steps for expressing compassion during a force intervention need to be clear.

Covert medication administration might be as forceful as physical or chemical restraint for patients lacking insight.

Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization.

Black women living with HIV contend with injuries of injustice that influence their reproductive lives.