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Ethics Talk

High-stakes ethics decisions are common in health care. What should you do? Each month, the AMA Journal of Ethics’ podcast, Ethics Talk, features interviews with influential experts and leaders on a wide range of cultural, historical, legal, and social topics in health care ethics. We sort through interesting, important, and difficult questions, talk about how to weigh competing values, and offer strategies for navigating real world tough cases.

info_outline Editorial Fellow Interview: “Promises and Perils of Electronic Health Records” 11/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “What Are Ethical Merits and Drawbacks of a Patient’s Open and Direct Access to Clinical Information in Their EHRs During a Hospital Stay?” 11/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Whom Should We Regard as a Legitimate Stakeholder in the Accuracy of Information in a Patient’s EHR?” 11/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: "How Should We Think About Ambient Listening and Transcription Technologies’ Influences on EHR Documentation and Patient-Clinician Conversations?” 11/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: "EHRs, iPatients, and Clinician Well-Being" 11/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “How to Teach Good EHR Documentation and Deflate Bloated Chart Notes” 11/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “A Comic of RBCs and Other EHR TMI” 11/15/2025
info_outline Ethics Talk: How Do Street Clinicians Use EHRs? 11/01/2025
info_outline Ethics Talk Should the Body Mass Index (BMI) Still Be Used in Health Care? 10/24/2025
info_outline Editorial Fellow Interview: “Equity and Ethics in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network” 10/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “How Should Students and Trainees Be Taught to Support Patients With Undiagnosed Conditions?” 10/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Is the UDN N-of-1 Enterprise Ethically Justifiable?” 10/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “What Matters Ethically About How the UDN Has Changed Since Its Inception” 10/15/2025
info_outline Ethics Talk: Why Has US Health Research Shifted From Social and Environmental Factors to Genetics? 10/01/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “How Should Clinical Teams Integrate Findings From Social Needs Screenings Into Children’s Care Plans?” 09/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “How Should Clinicians Follow Up About Nonresponses to Mandatory SDoH Screening Questions?” 09/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Centering Social Pediatrics in Graduate Medical Education” 09/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Trauma-Informed Screening for Structural Drivers of Health” 09/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Critical Pedagogical Approaches to Structural Drivers of Health” 09/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Advocacy as an Origin of Pediatrics” 09/15/2025
info_outline Ethics Talk: Ethical and Clinical Complexities of SDoH Screening and Follow-Up 09/01/2025
info_outline Editorial Fellow Interview: “Existential Health Care Ethics” 08/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “How Might Health Care Think About the Ethics of Human Extinction” 08/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Why Should Extinction Medicine Be a Specialty?” 08/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Why and How Should Physicians Mitigate Threats of Nuclear War?” 08/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Medicine, Futures, and the Prevention of Human Extinction” 08/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Why Should Clinicians Care About Infectious Disease Existential Hazards?” 08/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Four Key Concepts in Existential Health Care Ethics” 08/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Virtue Ethics and Postponing Human Extinction” 08/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Radiate Youth” 08/15/2025
 
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