AMA Journal of Ethics

Like all humans, health professionals are subject to cognitive biases that can render diagnoses and treatment decisions vulnerable to error.

Pain is the most common reason patients seek health care. The AMA Pain Care Task Force suggests how clinicians can offer good pain care and become savvy about situating themselves in the health care system to do so.

A self-portrait in bold colors depicts an experience of imposterhood in medicine.

Portraiture facilitates learners’ explorations of their own and others’ biases, limitations, and approaches to gathering information from and about a source.

Intersections of humanities and health care prompt students and clinicians to look beyond science and into the emotional journeys of caring.

Curatorial and ethical questions are numerous in an exhibition that includes visceral psychological portraits and explanatory text not typically considered by museums and galleries.

There is great need for good teaching about how to have culturally appropriate conversations among clinicians, patients, and other stakeholders.

The term "domestic global health" raises ethical attention to language.

Some patients’ stories can be hard to tell and hard to listen to, especially in pressured, time-pinched clinical environments.

Parallels between domestic and international education experiences reiterate emphasis on service.