Ethics Talk

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.

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December 15, 2025 5 mins

Editorial Fellow Dr Nicolai Wohns joins Ethics Talk to discuss the Dece...

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Dr Diya Uberoi joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Abby Rud: "How Old Are You, Actuarily?" 

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Dr Michael Hauskeller joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coautho...

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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.

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Dr Neda Frayha joins Ethics Talk

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Ali Rahman joins Ethics Talk

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Sara Gerke joins Ethics Talk to discuss her a...

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Steve O'Neill joins Ethics Talk to dis...

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Ibrahim Nawaz Khan joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Lauren Smith: Read more

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Editorial Fellow Dr David Oxman joins Ethics Talk to discuss the November 2025 issue of the Journal: "Electronic Health Record Evolution."

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Brett Feldman joins Ethics Talk to discuss the evolution of electronic health records in street health care practice Read more

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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 understandin...

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Dr David A. Pearce joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr

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Gianna Gordon joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Lisa Kearns

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Dr Mylynda Massart

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Editorial Fellow Dr Peter Nelson joins Ethics Talk to discuss the July 2025 issue of the Journal, co-curated with Georgeann Booth: "Diagnostic Rese...

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Dr James Tabery joins Ethics Talk to discuss how US health research has shifted from social and environmental factors to genetics over the course of the mid-to-late 20 Read more

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Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: "

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