AMA Journal of Ethics^®

This summary of guidance on physicians’ interactions with governments considers their nonclinical roles, political actions, and communications.

Scott Schweikart joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Clinicians in Government.”

This watercolor painting looks to our 20th-century ancestors who fought to establish their, and many of our, voting rights.

False health information can harm, so hosts and writers of website content, clinicians, and patients are all responsible for jointly appraising the quality of online content and preventing the spread of misinformation.

The adverse health effects of climate change should be the focus of physician advocacy efforts and of conversations between physicians and their patients.

In the September 2014 issue on physicians as agents of social change, Dr. Audiey Kao, editor-in-chief of Virtual Mentor interviewed Dr. Rajiv Shah, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development or USAID.

Physicians accept, and are held to, higher expectations and a more prominent social role than the average citizen.

Whether a physician fancies herself a member of the Green Party or the Tea Party, he or she must obey our government’s rules in her advocacy for that cause and be extremely diligent in those increasingly rare instances when she feels herself compelled not to do so.

Physicians need to become more involved in the public debate regarding issues of medicine, science, and evolution.

Physicians should take part in public health advocacy to improve health care for all patients.