AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Following evidence-based approaches to evaluating and reporting suspicion of child maltreatment can help minimize bias and promote equity.

Separation of children from their parents is one possible traumatizing consequence of a mandated report, which is not to be taken lightly.

If it is ethically justifiable for clinicians to err by overreporting suspected abuse and neglect, we must fairly distribute benefits and harms among all children and families.

This article considers 1990s and 2000s-era civil rights complaints in NYC and offers legal strategies for scaling health outcomes improvement nationwide.

Ruhee Shah joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Lindsay Clark, Terence M. Hughes, Ashesh Trivedi, and Dr Leona Hess: “Medical Student-Driven Efforts to Incorporate Segregated Care Education Into Their Curriculum.”

One expression of structural injustice in the United States is delivery of health care according to patients’ race and insurance status.

Unchallenged supra-geographic segregation perpetuates racial medical mythology, exacerbates myopia in health professions practice and education, and perpetuates injustice.

Dr Lisa Lehmann joins Ethics Talk to discuss “grateful patient programs,” pressures clinicians face to fundraise on behalf of health care organizations for which they work, and whether “VIP” care really is better for patients.

The Roadmap to Advance Health Equity offers specific, actionable antiracist payment reform strategies to help ensure that everyone can receive good health services and optimize their health.

Harriet A. Washington joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Does Racial Segregation Taint Medical Pedagogy?”