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Kavita Arora, MD
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5 Min Read

Physicians affirm, clarify duty to promote equitable care

The work of undoing health inequity is never finished, as the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated. The AMA has adopted ethics policy supporting it.

Health Equity
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4 Min Read

Protecting reproductive health care means protecting physicians

Third-party interference with the patient-physician relationship puts both patients and physicians at risk and undermines public health. 

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
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3 Min Read

By doctors, for doctors: Ethics guidance now just one click away

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ new website brings ethics into the exam room to help patients and physicians with expert guidance on everyday issues.

Ethics
Bruce Scott, MD, and Lisa Egbert, MD, HOD speakers at 2022 Interim
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10 Min Read

ICYMI: 10 stories to read from the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting

The AMA House of Delegates leads the charge to protect reproductive health care, stop climate change, end the overdose epidemic, and prevent gun violence.

Interim Meeting
Delegates at the 2022 Interim Meeting
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31 Min Read

Highlights from the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting

Catch up with the news and key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ meeting, which ran Nov. 12–15.

Interim Meeting
Attendee speaking at the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting
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3 Min Read

What is physicians’ duty to treat during pandemics?

COVID-19 renewed questions around limits to professional duty. Learn how the AMA is updating the Code of Medical Ethics to advise physicians.

Ethical & Judicial Affairs
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30 Min Read

The role of medicine in armed conflict: Ethical and professional impacts

In this episode of the Moving Medicine podcast, learn about the role of medicine in armed conflict, a conversation during the 2022 Annual Meeting.

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Ethics
Moving Medicine Podcast
Zaher Sahloul, MD
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5 Min Read

To endure the anguish of wartime, look to medical ethics

Being a physician in an armed conflict can seem unbearable. Ethical guidance helps take the stress out of decision-making.

Injury & Violence
Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD
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6 Min Read

Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, wins office of AMA president-elect

Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, a Wisconsin anesthesiologist, became the first openly gay person to win the office of AMA president-elect. Learn about the other AMA election results.

Leadership