When physicians fail to model behaviors they advocate for others, trust is eroded. 

This comic considers how patients work to use the right vocabulary to help their physicians help them.

Dr Isabelle Freiling joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Nicole M. Krause and Dr Dietram A. Scheufele: “Science and Ethics of ‘Curing’ Misinformation.”

Misinformation is an urgent new problem, so health professions communities need solutions as much as they need to be wary of ethical pitfalls of rushed interventions.

Dr Colleen E. Bennett joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Cindy W. Christian: “How Should Clinicians and Students Cope With Secondary Trauma When Caring for Children Traumatized by Abuse or Neglect?”

This narrative illuminates need for students and clinicians to be well prepared to face ethically and structurally complex realities of identifying and responding to children.

When health care professionals encounter child abuse and neglect, they tend to experience a range of emotions, such as anger, sadness, and frustration.

This comic shares a true story of a physician’s fraught interaction with and physical examination of a patient.

How should clinical environments bolster both empathy and calm socially, not just individually, to build solidarity and make space for care?

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