AMA Journal of Ethics^®

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.”

Traditional models of medical education in the US do not teach students to problematize segregation where they train and help care for patients. 

One expression of structural injustice in the United States is delivery of health care according to patients’ race and insurance status.

Ruhee Shah joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Lindsay Clark, Terence M. Hughes, Ashesh Trivedi, and Dr Leona Hess: “Medical Student-Driven Efforts to Incorporate Segregated Care Education Into Their Curriculum.”

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

Meditation on images of corporeal suffering were once part of a “spiritual ordeal” that can still provoke a kind of transformation key to health professionalism.

To improve health outcomes, clinicians must move quickly yet operate slowly enough to center empathy in practice.

Dr Lisa M. Lee joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Anita L. Allen: "How Should Clinicians Own Their Roles as Past and Present Exacerbators of Health Inequity and as Present and Future Contributors to Health Equity?”

What is health care for? Recovery strategies, techniques for becoming calm, and reminders about why stillness matters can help us find a few answers.

Communities are not affected equally by the volume and location of US health care waste.