Clinicians using governing authority to make public health policy are ethically obliged to draw upon scientific and clinical information that accords professional standards.

Under-resourced and fragmented public health infrastructure has contributed to a poor pandemic response in the United States.

When regulatory decisions express overconfidence, one risk is that the costliness or misinformation will exacerbate health inequity.

This article considers 3 works by artists who were directly or indirectly affected by this type of childhood abuse.

When health care professionals encounter child abuse and neglect, they tend to experience a range of emotions, such as anger, sadness, and frustration.

Tania L. Abramson joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Paul R. Abramson: “Illuminating Psychological Torment of Child Abuse.”

Dr Colleen E. Bennett joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Cindy W. Christian: “How Should Clinicians and Students Cope With Secondary Trauma When Caring for Children Traumatized by Abuse or Neglect?”

Clinical needs of patients with disabilities are seen with the “medical gaze,” a depersonalized lens of evidence-based medicine and of presumed objectivity.

Increased awareness of conscious and unconscious biases and structural drivers of health can increase the likelihood of upstander interventions.

Dr Lisa Lehmann joins Ethics Talk to discuss “grateful patient programs,” pressures clinicians face to fundraise on behalf of health care organizations for which they work, and whether “VIP” care really is better for patients.