AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Use of body mass index as a health care metric is controversial, especially in candidacy assessments for gender-affirming surgery.  

Estelle v Gamble (1976) reiterates that the 8th Amendment to the US Constitution requires adequate care to be offered to all people who are incarcerated.

Despite common outcomes of GRS, decision making about surgical care differs among patients across the lifespan.

Ryan K. Sallans joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “More Lessons for Health Professionals From a Transgender Patient.”

This article shares one transgender person’s numerous health care encounters over 20 years, as both a patient and a professional.

Dr Jennifer Aldrich joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Jessica Kant and Eric Gramszlo: “Gender-Affirming Care, Incarceration, and the Eighth Amendment.”

Increased awareness of conscious and unconscious biases and structural drivers of health can increase the likelihood of upstander interventions.

Dr Emily Cleveland Manchanda joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Karthik Sivashanker, Steffie Kinglake, Emily Laflamme, Dr Vikas Saini, and Dr Aletha Maybank: “Training to Build Antiracist, Equitable Health Care Systems.”

This article applies principlism to what a “shoppable service” model would demand of clinicians in practice.

Mark Rukavina joins Ethics Talk to discuss how consumer advocacy groups can help advance health justice and equity.