Lio Barnhardt joins Ethics Talk to discuss their comic: “Decision Tree Comic.”

Risk-benefit analyses are part of most health decisions and are investigated visually and narratively in this comic.

Dr Robert I. Field joins Ethics Talk to discuss whether and to what extent private equity firms’ increasing presence in health care deserves our scrutiny and what policy makers, clinicians, and patients should know about responding to private equity ownership stakes in the organizations where they work and where they go for health services.

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

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.

Fragmentation in US health care delivery streams and shortcomings in formal quality measures mean that transparency could be more useful to policymakers and regulators than patients.

Dr Kevin Schulman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Barak Richman: “Informed Consent as a Means of Acknowledging and Avoiding Financial Toxicity as Iatrogenic Harm.”

Online tools intended to make health care purchasing resemble “consumerism” have had little effect on improving transparency for patients.

Dr Jing Li joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Robert Tyler Braun, Sophia Kakarala, and Dr Holly G. Prigerson: “How Should Cost-Informed Goals of Care Decisions Be Facilitated at Life’s End?”

Sarosh Nagar joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Leah Z. Rand and Aaron S. Kesselheim: “What Should US Policymakers Learn From International Drug Pricing Transparency Strategies?”