A member of the medical staff wearing full PPE treats a patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit
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4 MIN READ

COVID-19: How to implement crisis care standards when needed

The emotional toll of implementing crisis standards of care is often overlooked. Learn with the AMA how to support decision-makers and front-line staff.

Public Health
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3 MIN READ

How legacies of the Holocaust should inform health care

The involvement of health professionals in the atrocities of the Holocaust have significantly influenced bioethics. Learn more from the AMA Journal of Ethics.

Ethics
Patient and physician in a telehealth appointment
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5 MIN READ

NODE.Health building knowledge base for telehealth best practices

Organization works to build body of evidence-based best practices that support integration of digital health tools into physician practice workflow.

Digital
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3 MIN READ

What to do when families won’t accept brain death as final word

Brain death is often socially situated and fraught with uncertainty. Learn more in the latest issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics.

Ethics
Close-up of an African-American parent's feet with their child's feet on top.
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4 MIN READ

Dermatology a bellwether of health inequities during COVID-19

Learn with the AMA how a skin manifestation of SARS-CoV-2 infection sheds light on racial and ethnic disparities in dermatologic care.

Health Equity
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3 MIN READ

AMA policy calls for more COVID-19 prevention for congregate settings

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen the virus spread quickly in high-density populations, particularly in correctional facilities.

Press Releases
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3 MIN READ

In patient care, what is the ethical role of risk managers?

Learn how risk managers can collaborate with ethics consultants, physicians and other health professionals to properly respond to complex questions around caregiving, ethics and law.

Ethics
An illustration of a chain of people holding hands reaching out to each other over a gulf.
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3 MIN READ

How health inequities outlive historical social injustices

A Harvard social epidemiologist argues that health care policy should account for the long-lasting impact of injustices on patients’ well-being.

Health Equity
Person wearing a face mask
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3 MIN READ

How physicians can better care for Native American patients

Learn more about the ethical, social and cultural complexities of delivering care to Native patients living on sovereign tribal land and elsewhere in the U.S.

Ethics