AMA Journal of Ethics

Ethics Talk

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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.

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AMA Journal of Ethics

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Dec 15, 2025

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Episodes

Author Interview: How Long Have Supplements Promised to Make Us Slim, Sexy, and Virile? 01.05.2022

Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: "How Long Have Supplements Promised to Make Us Slim, Sexy, and Virile?" Recorded March 14, 2022  Read the full article here .

Author Interview: What Should Clinicians Know About Dietary Supplement Quality? 01.05.2022

Marissa Chaet Brykman  joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Virginia Goldman, Dr Nandakumara Sarma, Dr Hellen Oketch-Rabah, Deborah Biswas and Dr Gabriel Giancaspro: " What Should Clinicians Know About Dietary Supplement Quality?" Recorded March 04, 2022   Read the full article here . 

Author Interview: Is My Patient Taking an Unsafe Dietary Supplement? 01.05.2022

Dr  Ilisa Bernstein joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Karin Bolte: ""Is My Patient Taking an Unsafe Dietary Supplement?" Recorded March 03, 2022  Read the full article here . 

Author Interview: Should Clinicians Prescribe Non-FDA Regulated Dietary Supplements When Caring for Children With Hypovitaminosis D? 01.05.2022

Dr  Ala Shaikhkhalil  joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Ethan Mezoff and Hannah Hays: "Should Clinicians Prescribe Non-FDA Regulated Dietary Supplements When Caring for Children With Hypovitaminosis D?" Recorded February 21, 2022  Read the full article here . 

Author Interview: Why Community Health Workers' Roles in Latinx Communities Are Essential 01.04.2022

Wandy Hernandez-Gordon joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: " Why Community Health Workers' Roles in Latinx Communities Are Essential"   Read the full article here . Recorded January 21, 2022  

Author Interview: Recognizing and Dismantling Raciolinguistic Hierarchies in Latinx Health 01.04.2022

Dr Pilar Ortega joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Glenn Martínez, Marco A. Alemán, Alejandra Zapién-Hidalgo, and Tiffany M. Shin: "Recognizing and Dismantling Raciolinguistic Hierarchies in Latinx Health"  Read the full article here . Recorded January 11, 2022  

Ethics Talk: How the US Census Left Latinx Americans Behind 01.04.2022

On this episode of Ethics Talk, Dr Ruth Enid Zambrana shows how decisions about demographic data collection have the power to illuminate or obscure health inequity. Then, Drs De Maio, Derige, and Lemos discuss the work that the AMA Center for Health Equity has been doing to advance Latinx health equity. Interview with Dr Zambrana recorded on December 6, 2021.   Interview with Drs De Maio, Derige,...

Author Interview: How Should Clinicians Express Solidarity With Asylum Seekers at the US-Mexico Border? 01.04.2022

Carlos Martinez joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Lauren Carruth, Hannah Janeway, Lahra Smith, Katharine Donato, Carlos Piñones-Rivera, James Quesada, and Seth Holmes: How Should Clinicians Express Solidarity With Asylum Seekers at the US-Mexico Border?   Read the full article here .  Recorded January 7, 2022  

Author Interview: Should Clinicians Be Activists? 01.04.2022

Dr Kristen Pallok joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr David Ansell : " Should Clinicians Be Activists?" Read the full article here. Recorded January 19, 2022  

Author Interview: How Is Colonialism a Sociostructural Determinant of Health in Puerto Rico? 01.04.2022

Dr José Pérez-Ramos joins Ethics Talk discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Adriana Garriga-López and Carlos E Rodríguez-Díaz: How Is Colonialism a Sociostructural Determinant of Health in Puerto Rico?   Read the full article here . Recorded January 25, 2022 

Author Interview: How Should Educators and Publishers Eliminate Racial Essentialism? 01.03.2022

Dr Jennifer Tsai joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: "How Should Educators and Publishers Eliminate Racial Essentialism?" Recorded December 13, 2021

Author Interview: How Abolition of Race-Based Medicine Is Necessary to American Health Justice 01.03.2022

Dr Stephen Richmond joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Vanessa Grubbs: "How Abolition of Race-Based Medicine Is Necessary to American Health Justice" Recorded November 19, 2021

Author Interview: Community Mental Health Centers' Roles in Depolicing Medicine 01.03.2022

Dr Carmen Black joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Emma Lo and Keith Gallagher: "Community Mental Health Centers' Roles in Depolicing Medicine" Recorded November 11, 2021

Author Interview: An Abolitionist Approach to Antiracist Medical Education 01.03.2022

Russyan Mark Mabeza joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Betial Asmerom, Dr Rupinder Legha, and Vanessa Nuñez: "What Law Enforcement Can Learn From Health Care About Moral Injury Recorded December 13, 2021

Author Interview: Alignment of Abolition Medicine With Reproductive Justice 01.03.2022

Dr Crystal Hayes joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Anu Manchikanti Gomez: "Alignment of Abolition Medicine With Reproductive Justice" Recorded November 12, 2021

Author Interview: Why Professionalism Demands Abolition of Carceral Approaches to Patients' Nonadherence Behaviors 01.03.2022

Aminta Kouyate joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Nhi Tran and Monica Hahn: " Why Professionalism Demands Abolition of Carceral Approaches to Patients' Nonadherence Behaviors"   Recorded November 23, 2021  

Ethics Talk: The Generative Power of Abolition 01.03.2022

On this episode of Ethics Talk, Zahra Kahn, Yoshiko Iwai, and Dr Sayantani DasGupta outline how "abolition medicine" can motivate critical responses to m edicine's expressions of hyper-punitive, deeply racialized exercises of state authority . Recorded November 12, 2021

Author Interview: "What Law Enforcement Can Learn From Health Care About Moral Injury" 01.02.2022

Dr Wendy Dean joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: "What Law Enforcement Can Learn From Health Care About Moral Injury" Recorded October 27, 2021

Author Interview: "Crisis Intervention Team Program Leadership Must Include Psychiatrists" 01.02.2022

Dr Natalie Bonfine joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Mark Munetz: "Crisis Intervention Team Program Leadership Must Include Psychiatrists" Recorded November 23, 2021

Author Interview: "Why Care-Based, Not Carceral, Approaches to Suspects With Mental Illness Is Key to Whether We Trust Professional or State Authority Ever Again" 01.02.2022

Dr Frederic Reamer joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: "Why Care-Based, Not Carceral, Approaches to Suspects With Mental Illness Is Key to Whether We Trust Professional or State Authority Ever Again" Recorded November 2, 2021

Author Interview: "How Should Exposure Risk to Tactical Personnel Be Balanced Against Clinical and Ethical Rescue Demand?" 01.02.2022

Dr Mollie Willliams joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Olaitan Ajisafe: "How Should Exposure Risk to Tactical Personnel Be Balanced Against Clinical and Ethical Rescue Demand?" Recorded November 10, 2021

Author Interview: "Tactical Emergency Casualty Care and the Art of Practicing Nonmaleficence in Harm's Way" 01.02.2022

Dr Jeremy Ackerman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: "Tactical Emergency Casualty Care and the Art of Practicing Nonmaleficence in Harm's Way" Recorded October 25, 2021

Author Interview: "Should a Physician Ever Violate SWAT or TEMS Protocol in a Mass Casualty Incident?" 01.02.2022

Dr Brandon Morshedi joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Faroukh Mehkri: "Should a Physician Ever Violate SWAT or TEMS Protocol in a Mass Casualty Incident?" Recorded November 3, 2021

Author Interview: "How Should Clinicians Determine a Traumatized Patient's Readiness to Return to Work?" 01.02.2022

Tabitha E. H. Moses, MS joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Arash Javanbakht: "How Should Clinicians Determine a Traumatized Patient's Readiness to Return to Work?"  Read the full article here . Recorded November 26, 2021

Ethics Talk: How Crisis Intervention Team Training Improves Safety 01.02.2022

Dr Amy Watson joins Ethics Talk to discuss how crisis intervention teams can motivate efficiency and equity in tactical responses to 911 calls and what community mental health intervention might look like when we think beyond the limits of law enforcement response. Recorded October 28, 2021

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