Violence perpetrated against unarmed patients is common in health care, and evidence-based safety measures are needed to acknowledge and eradicate clinical violence.

Dr Crystal M. Hayes joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Anu Manchikanti Gomez: “Alignment of Abolition Medicine With Reproductive Justice.”

Health professions educators should reform pedagogy on race, when clinically relevant, to emphasize racism as the root cause of health inequity.

In 2020, the authors of this article published “Abolition Medicine” as one contribution to international abolitionist conversations responding to widespread anti-Black police violence and inequity laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic.

On this episode of Ethics Talk, Zahra H. Khan, Yoshiko Iwai, and Dr Sayantani DasGupta outline how “abolition medicine” can motivate critical responses to medicine’s expressions of hyper-punitive, deeply racialized exercises of state authority.

Dr Stephen P. Richmond joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Vanessa Grubbs: “How Abolition of Race-Based Medicine Is Necessary to American Health Justice.”

Dr Amy Watson joins Ethics Talk to discuss how crisis intervention teams can motivate efficiency and equity in tactical responses to 911 calls and what community mental health intervention might look like when we think beyond the limits of law enforcement response.

There are fewer Black men in US medical schools today than in 1970, although their contributions are key to building medicine’s capacity to equitably promote healing.

Mistakes and lessons from AMA history situate the AMA now for antiracist leadership in the health care sector.

Focus on diversity is critical, yet most US schools have failed to achieve racial-ethnic or economic diversity representative of the general US population.