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Amid nuclear and climate threats, what duties do physicians have?

Learn about existential health care ethics, a field aimed at addressing ethical questions about intersections of human extinction and health care.

Environmental Health

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Why future doctors must learn Holocaust’s awful lessons

German physicians traveled a horrendous path from healing to killing. Medical schools can teach this tragic history to better shape tomorrow’s physicians.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Statement from the AMA Board of Trustees

The AMA stands with the physicians and health care personnel who are on the frontlines.

Press Releases
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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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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
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In war, medical ethics becomes immediate and vital

As the nature of modern warfare has evolved, so has the quick thinking required to practice ethically minded medicine in conflict zones. Learn more.

Ethics
Retroville trade center on April 3, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine
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Targeting civilians and health care in war is unconscionable

The Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians, hospitals and clinics are outrageous and must stop now. Learn how you can aid medical relief efforts.

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
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Senseless war in Ukraine sparks physician aid response

AMA joins counterparts around the world to decry outrageous attacks on Ukrainian medical facilities. Learn how physicians can help the war’s victims.

Injury & Violence
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AMA urges elimination of nuclear weapons

Citing some of the medical and environmental consequences of nuclear war—no matter how “limited”—the AMA urged the U.S. Department of State to eliminate nuclear weapons and work to reduce nuclear arms in a letter sent earlier this month.

Injury & Violence