JAMA Author Interviews

Intentional miscoding of abortion services may put clinicians and hospital systems at legal risk. JAMA Senior Editor Linda Brubaker, MD, MS, and Carmel Shachar, JD, MPH, from the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School, discuss the risks of intentional miscoding practices and possible penalties. Related Content: Abortion Miscoding—Legal Risks for Clinicians and Hospital Systems

The Covenant of Water, Stanford University professor Dr Abraham Verghese's long-awaited follow-up to his 2009 novel Cutting for Stone, traces the lives of a family in southern India negotiating forces of history, fate, and a genetic condition that takes the life of a member in each generation by drowning. In part 2, JAMA Arts and Medicine Section Editor Michael Berkwits, MD, MSCE, talks with Dr Verghese about the craft of writing fiction, the role of the humanities in medicine, of artificial intelligence in literature, and more. Related Content: "The Art of the Craft," From The Covenant of Water The Covenant of Water – Reflections on Fiction, the Humanities, and Medicine (Part 1 of this interview)

The ACA's preventive services mandate requires insurers to cover, without charge, nearly 200 basic primary care services. But now, a federal judge has issued a nationwide injunction preventing the Biden administration from enforcing this cost-free care for a significant number of these services. JAMA Executive Editor Gregory Curfman, MD, discusses this and more with Abbe R. Gluck, JD, Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy, Yale Law School. Related Content: Cost-Free Preventive Care Under the ACA Faces Legal Challenge

Most epidemiological studies of heart failure have been conducted in high-income countries. JAMA Senior Editor Kristin L. Walter, MD, MS, interviews Philip George Joseph, MD, from the Population Health Research Institute, Ontario, Canada, about a study of more than 23 000 patients with heart failure in 40 countries. Related Content: Global Variations in Heart Failure Etiology, Management, and Outcomes

Interview with Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Hosted by JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS. Related Content: Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection Among Non–US-Born Adults in the US Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults Screening for Latent Tuberculosis

The mental health of young people in the US has been an issue of increased concern in recent years. In this podcast, author Tanner Bommersbach, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and Greg Rhee, PhD, a health services researcher and pharmacoepidemiologist at the University of Connecticut, join JAMA Senior Editor Kristin Walter, MD, MS, in a discussion about mental health-related emergency department visits in the US among children, adolescents, and young adults from 2011-2020. Related Content: National Trends in Mental Health–Related Emergency Department Visits Among Youth, 2011-2020

The Covenant of Water, Stanford University professor Dr Abraham Verghese's long-awaited follow-up to his 2009 novel Cutting for Stone, traces the lives of a family in southern India negotiating forces of history, fate, and a genetic condition that takes the life of a member in each generation by drowning. JAMA Arts and Medicine Section Editor Michael Berkwits, MD, MSCE, talks with Dr Verghese about the novel's clinical insights, the craft of writing fiction, the role of the humanities in medicine, of artificial intelligence in literature, and more. Related Content: "The Art of the Craft," From The Covenant of Water Physician as Writer: Abraham Verghese Reflects on the Art of the Craft of Writing Fiction (Part 2 of this interview)

Major medical schools are no longer contributing data to the US News & World Report (USNWR) including more than half the schools that are currently ranked in the top 10 medical schools by the survey. In this podcast, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, speaks with author Holly J. Humphrey, MD, from the Josiah Macy Jr Foundation in New York, about the recently published Viewpoint "Medical School Rankings—Bad for the Health of the Profession and the Public." Related Content: Medical School Rankings—Bad for the Health of the Profession and the Public

Differences among countries in how health care is organized could have implications for health equity. JAMA Associate Editor Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, and Bruce E. Landon, MD, MBA, MSc, professor of health care policy, Harvard Medical School, discuss whether treatment patterns and outcomes for patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction differ for patients with higher vs lower incomes across 6 countries. Related Content: Differences in Treatment Patterns and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction for Low- and High-Income Patients in 6 Countries

JAMA Executive Editor Greg Curfman, MD, speaks with Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, director of the Harvard Center for Bioethics, who describes the 2 approaches to the determination of death (cardiovascular death and brain death) and discusses the possibility that the determination of brain death may soon undergo substantial change, with important implications for organ transplantation. Related Content: The Uncertain Future of the Determination of Brain Death