Dr John Chenault joins Ethics Teaching and Learning to discuss how he uses critical theory to prepare health professions students to better distinguish representation from reality.

This article highlights opinions in the Code that exemplify obligations to promote social justice and equity in health professions pedagogy and training.

Dr Patricia Luck joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Arman M. Niknafs: “Reasons Not to Turf a Patient Whose ‘Belonging’ in a Hospital Is Unclear.”

Through the lens of metaphor and the arts, this article aims to illuminate how persons who are ill tarry through uncertainty to receive care.

Dr David Marcus joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “When, If Ever, Is It Appropriate to Regard a Patient as ‘Too Medically Complex’ for One Inpatient Service, But Not Another?”

Constraints on hospitalists and surgeons and restricted orthopedic admission criteria can exacerbate patients’ distress that comes from clinicians’ disagreements.

Dr Jane Lee joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Gabriel Robles and Latoya Small: “What Should Students Learn About the Importance of Cultural Brokering in Immigrant Communities?”

Dr Zachary G. Jacobs joins Ethics Talk to discuss his comic: “Isolation, Connection, and Learning to Slow Down.”

 

Loneliness is an endemic experience of immigrants to the United States that could be mitigated by cultural brokerage practices in clinical settings. 

What did a hospitalist physician learn from a patient about how to slow down?