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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 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
info_outline Author Interview: “Painting Through Macular Degeneration” 08/15/2025
info_outline Ethics Talk: Why Health Care Still Matters in the Face of Humanity’s End 08/01/2025
info_outline Ethics Talk: What Should Clinicians and Patients Know About Private Equity in Health Care? 07/21/2025
info_outline Editorial Fellow Interview: “What Makes Rural EMS in the US a Health Equity Concern?” 07/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “According to Which Criteria Should a Return EMS Trip of Long Duration and Distance Be Deemed Ethically Justifiable?” 07/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “How Should Rural EMS Funding Streams Be Improved?” 07/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “What Might the Past Suggest About Rural Emergency Services Amidst Critical Access Hospitals’ Decline?” 07/15/2025
info_outline Ethics Talk: Time as a Critical Resource in Rural Emergency Medical Services 07/01/2025
info_outline Editorial Fellow Interview: “Embodiment in Art Practice” 06/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Narrative, Embodiment, and Health” 06/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Muscle Memory as Embodied Record Keeping” 06/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Repair and Transformation” 06/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “Self-Portraiture, Embodiment, and Adaptive Creation” 06/15/2025
info_outline Author Interview: “When Poor Practice and Poor Communication Make Grief Worse” 06/15/2025
 
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