A Toast to Illuminating the Art of Medicine

In December, at the end of 2025, the AMA Journal of Ethics stops publication. I am gutted to hear it. 

This open-access journal meets a sweet spot in health professions education. A rigorously composed, insightful cocktail of art, ethics and healthcare, it is free to all interested readers. The journal started over 25 years ago. It asks good questions. Tricky ones. Fascinating, practical ones. In the topics over the years, access to medicines comes up naturally, in various contexts. 

I toast every member of the editorial team (an editor is a mixologist, after all), every editorial fellow, every artist and author and podcast interviewer. I toast the journal’s collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Here’s to you! 

A toast to AMA Journal of Ethics is truly a toast to public health.

​Content will be archived at the site. Visit AMA Journal of Ethics. Read the November 14, 2025 MedPage Today article by Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, and Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD. 

"Ready to Toast," 2025, Katy Giebenhain