This article suggests strategies for how to disclose the nature and scope of resident surgeon involvement in managing intraoperative care.

Key unmet technological needs pertain to instrument size and adaptability secondary to the smaller pediatric robotic surgery market. 

Costs partly determine organizational robotics, but questions remain about whether and to what extent they should influence care decisions. 

While useful in analyzing population trends in relative body weight, BMI possesses multiple shortcomings when used as an individualized health screening tool.

Dr Madeline Ward joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Why We Need to Stop Labeling Behaviors Influencing a Person’s Weight Ideal or Healthy."

Dr Jake Young joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Clinical Use of BMI.”

Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Fat Norms and the AMA.”

Healthist views about body shape and weight are oppressive and lead to pernicious harms, especially to members of vulnerable groups. 

Underlying ideological foundations of stigma and equipment inadequacy include thin-centrism and inadequate representation of fat people in health care organizational leadership.  

Physicians tend to rely on diagnostic criteria, including BMI, that can influence patients’ access to care, referrals, and insurance coverage for indicated interventions.