Inequitable care and outcomes experienced by persons with mental illness have long been exacerbated by stigma expressed by clinicians.

Dr Kristen R. Choi joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Bantale Ayisire: “When Experiencing Inequitable Health Care Is a Patient’s Norm, How Should Iatrogenic Harm Be Considered?”

Ramya Sampath joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “When Is Iatrogenic Harm Negligent?”

Transgender people commonly experience discrimination from clinicians, which directly contributes to worse mental and physical health outcomes.

Avoiding harm requires that clinicians not overly rely on assumptions about “normal” embodiment.

An irony at play: a patient’s gift of a box of donuts is offered in thanks just as a physician recommends “more vegetables, less refined sugar.”

In American culture, blood, sweat, and tears mantras of sports remind athletes that they are expected to perform past their breaking points. 

Antiracist approaches to decriminalizing acute exacerbations of mental illness require clinicians’ engagement in educating, training, and policy making.

Underrecognition and lack of awareness about how to help patients with painful menstruation constitute injustice and a health care harm.

All harm resulting from negligence is iatrogenic, but not all iatrogenic injury is negligent.