Skilled interactions in health care are those in which clinicians focus on making patients feel seen and heard and that their needs are important and can be met.

What might be learned about undervaluing chaplaincy expertise, peace, and quiet in everyday operations of professional caregiving?

Dr Christy A. Rentmeester joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Roles of Quiet in Health Care Organizations.”

Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “The American Medical Association on the Ethics of Vivisection, 1880-1950.”

The American Medical Association was a major player in debates about vivisection in the late 1800s to mid-1950s.

Ethically justifying human-centered research with only nonhuman animals as subjects likely requires that the research’s benefits to humans must, at least, outweigh harms suffered by the nonhuman animals.

Dr Cynthia Geppert joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Should MLP Clinicians and Attorneys Help Veterans Secure Disability Benefits When Health Records Documentation Is Insufficient?”

MLPs in the VHA help minimize ethical tensions that tend to come up when diagnosing and documenting disability.

AMA Code opinions about collaborative care, health inequity, financial barriers to health care access, and physician responsibilities for safe patient discharge from health care facilities can apply to MLPs.

Evidence of harm reduction interventions’ morbidity and mortality benefits is abundant and of high quality.