AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma and breast implant illness have prompted recalls of implants.

Furthering clinicians’ understandings of how daily practice can respond to Black patients' experiences can help restore trust and mitigate racial and ethnic health inequity.

Respecting patient autonomy while seeking to understand patients’ unique perspectives can strengthen patient-surgeon relationships.

Dr Zoe Tao and Dr Michael Oldani join Ethics Talk to discuss how learning about transgenerational trauma can help clinicians motivate health equity, especially among historically marginalized groups like Native American and First Nations communities.

Clinicians must express humility, understand local culture, collaborate, and develop an insider’s perspective on past and present life.

This drawing considers how healers’ abilities to help patients grow come from their partnerships with patients and from their capacity for self-care.

Patient-centered care means offering potentially beneficial interventions while avoiding retraumatizing a patient.

Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization.