Creating comics in a graphic medicine course aids students’ professional development by providing opportunity for reflection and sharing experiences.

Ethical questions about how to justly represent mistreatment or abuse are abundant in graphic novels.

What can comic art about illness and health care offer patients and families as they navigate health challenges? This month on Ethics Talk, we discuss why comic art is a unique and powerful medium for communicating about difficult and emotional encounters with illness and health care.

When mandatory reporting of risk of violence is not required, physicians should balance patient autonomy and beneficence with patient and public safety.

Medical schools’ and hospitals’ Title IX policies should support trainees who have been victimized as well as address known incidents of sexual harassment.

Victims of sexual violence who are minors should not be forced to submit to a rape kit exam against their wishes since it might retraumatize the patient.

This photorealistic illustration considers the recent wrongful arrest of University of Utah Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinions related to responding to violence.

Gun violence prevention research can be furthered by private sector funding to develop and implement violence prevention programs in the clinic.

Creating comics can help physicians be better providers of trauma-informed care to survivors of sexual assault and human trafficking.