Incarceration history adds to the clinical and ethical complexity of surgical care for patients who require an ostomy, especially when secondary to trauma.

Most surgical inpatients who are incarcerated are not permitted to have visitors while hospitalized.

The first cells of this multi-panel comic represent the artist’s personal experiences of testing positive for and enduring COVID-19 in January 2024.

Teddie Bernard joins Ethics Talk to discuss their comic: A Comic About COVID-19 in 2024.

Office-based gynecologic procedures are reimbursed at lower rates than similar office urology and dermatology procedures.

Nishita Pondugula and Dr Louise P. King join Ethics Talk to discuss their article, coauthored with Parmida Maghsoudlou and Dr Vardit Ravitsky: “What Does Our Tolerance of Poor Management of Patients’ Pain Have to Do With Reimbursement Inequity for Office-Based Gynecologic Procedures?”

Despite high incidence of endometriosis internationally and domestically, many patients wait a decade after symptom onset for an accurate diagnosis.

Scott J. Schweikart joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Annika J. Penzer: “Using Policy and Law to Help Reduce Endometriosis Diagnostic Delay.”

Dr H. K. Quinn Valier joins Ethics Talk to discuss their article: “Lessons From the Political History of Epidemiology for Divisive Times.”

Modern epidemiological science developed as domestic and international infectious disease transmission accompanied industrialization and colonial military expansion.