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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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Author Interview: "How Old Are You, Actuarily?"

5 min

Dr Diya Uberoi joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Abby Rud: "How Old Are You, Actuarily?"  Recorded October 3, 2025.  Read the full article for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Editorial Fellow Interview: "Should Aging Be Treated?"

5 min

Editorial Fellow Dr Nicolai Wohns joins Ethics Talk to discuss the December 2025 issue of the Journal: "Aging is Bad for You?"  Recorded October 9, 2025.  Read the full December 2025 issue, Aging is Bad For You?, for free at JournalOfEthics.org

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Author Interview: "How Old Are You, Actuarily?"

5 min

Dr Diya Uberoi joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Abby Rud: "How Old Are You, Actuarily?"  Recorded October 3, 2025.  Read the full article for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Editorial Fellow Interview: "Should Aging Be Treated?"

5 min

Editorial Fellow Dr Nicolai Wohns joins Ethics Talk to discuss the December 2025 issue of the Journal: "Aging is Bad for You?"  Recorded October 9, 2025.  Read the full December 2025 issue, Aging is Bad For You?, for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Ethics Talk: Lessons from Disability Ethics About Ageism

27 min

Dr Erin Gentry Lamb joins Ethics Talk to key ideas from disability ethics that can inform our thinking about age-related biases and Dr Kate de Medeiros describes how medicalizing aging affects our health, relationships, and sense of self.  Interview with Dr Lamb recorded September 22, 2025; Interview with Dr de Medeiros recorded September 5, 2025.  Read the full December 2025 issue - Aging is Bad For You? - for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Author Interview: "EHRs, iPatients, and Clinician Well-Being"

4 min

Ali Rahman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Kimberly Ho, Marissa Dulas, Dr Zi-Yi Choo, and Dr Maria Alcocer Alkureishi: "EHRs, iPatients, and Clinician Well-Being."  Recorded August 22, 2025.  Read the full article for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Author Interview: "How Should We Think About Ambient Listening and Transcription Technologies' Influences on EHR Documentation and Patient-Clinician Conversations?"

5 min

Sara Gerke joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr David Simon "How Should We Think About Ambient Listening and Transcription Technologies' Influences on EHR Documentation and Patient-Clinician Conversations?"  Recorded August 7, 2025.  Read the full article for free at JournalOfEthics.org

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?"

3 min

Ibrahim Nawaz Khan joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Lauren Smith: "What Are Ethical Merits and Drawbacks of a Patient's Open and Direct Access to Clinical Information in Their EHRs During a Hospital Stay?"  Recorded July 30, 2025.  Read the full article for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Ethics Talk: How Do Street Clinicians Use EHRs?

23 min

Brett Feldman joins Ethics Talk to discuss the evolution of electronic health records in street health care practice.  Recorded on July 29, 2025.  Read the full November 2025 issue, Electronic Health Record Evolution, for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Ethics Talk Should the Body Mass Index (BMI) Still Be Used in Health Care?

44 min

Despite that body mass index (BMI) is a measure widely recognized as imprecise and of limited diagnostic utility, it remains in use in health care, including in procedure candidacy screening and to disqualify some patients' access to indicated interventions. In this Sept 10th Grand Rounds, Drs Fatima Cody Stanford and Natalie Boero will examine the clinical applications of BMI and their effects on patients, and how our understanding of the obesity "epidemic" has evolved. Recorded September 10, 2025.  Watch the video and claim CE credit at JournalOfEthics.org

Ethics Talk: Ethical and Clinical Complexities of SDoH Screening and Follow-Up

27 min

Dr Laura Gottlieb joins Ethics Talk to discuss currently available screening methods and the difficulty in establishing causal links among data about structural determinants of health, interventions, and outcomes, and Rachel Landauer explores how screening for pediatric social drivers of health might exacerbate shame and stigma.  Interviews with Dr Gottlieb recorded May 21, 2025; Interview with Rachel Landauer recorded May 21, 2025.   Read the full September 2025 issue for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Author Interview: "Radiate Youth"

3 min

Lio Barnhardt joins Ethics Talk to discuss their pair of illustrations: "Radiation Rejuvenation" and "Anemia and Necrosis."  Recorded June 2, 2025.  View the artwork at JournalOfEthics.org

Editorial Fellow Interview: "Existential Health Care Ethics"

5 min

Devin Kellis joins Ethics Talk to discuss his curation of the August 2025 issue of the Journal, "Existential Health Care Ethics".  Recorded June 9, 2025.  Read the full August 2025 issue on Existential Health Care Ethics for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Ethics Talk: Why Health Care Still Matters in the Face of Humanity's End

27 min

Dr Joseph G. Hodgkin joins Ethics Talk to discuss why clinicians should care about nuclear proliferation, and Dr Farah Hussain explains why health professions education curricula needs to include planetary health.  Interview with Dr Hodgkin was recorded May 14, 2025; the interview with Dr Hussain was recorded May 28, 2025.  Read the full August 2025 issue of the Journal, Existential Health Care Ethics, for free at JournalOfEthics.org

Ethics Talk: What Should Clinicians and Patients Know About Private Equity in Health Care?

43 min

In May 2025, the Journal launched the AMA Journal of Ethics Grand Rounds. This live broadcast series features experts engaging important but neglected questions and topics heath care ethics and health policy and a live questions and answer segment. Like all of our Ethics Talk podcasts, AMA Journal of Ethics Grand Rounds are eligible for CE credit in several multimedia formats. This is the audio version of the AMA Journal of Ethics Grand Rounds broadcast: What Should Clinicians and Patients Know About Private Equity in Health Care. The featured guests on this episode are Drs Robert Field and Yashaswini Singh.  Recorded May 16, 2025.  Watch the broadcast here. 

Ethics Talk: Time as a Critical Resource in Rural Emergency Medical Services

16 min

Representative Eric Emery joins Ethics Talk to discuss how rural EMS workers manage time as a critical resource and how legislative policy can help direct resources toward improving rural EMS service.  Recorded April 18, 2025.   Read the full July 2025 issue of the Journal, Rural US Emergency Medical Services, at JournalOfEthics.org.

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