AMA Journal of Ethics

Clinician-researchers deeply invested in data gathering are still obliged to respect a patient-subject’s right to stop being in research.

Recent advances in UTx suggest it is on a trajectory toward becoming an accepted clinical practice to treat absolute uterine factor infertility.

Despite drawbacks of immunosuppression and surgery, vascularized composite allotransplants can enhance lives of patients who meet candidacy criteria and are well supported.

Two digital photo-paintings address AI applications in medicine narratively and visually, with special emphasis on communication, compassion, and competence.

Facial transplantation must establish approaches to assessing QoL in candidates and recipients that use meaningful outcomes.

Success depends on strong support, rehabilitation, adherence, and social integration.

Current QoL conversations in HTx could be enhanced by a phenomenological account of temporality, embodiment, and intersubjectivity.

Improving candidate evaluation and informed consent is key to motivating authenticity, not just voluntariness.

What constitutes quality of life, from whose perspective it is assessed, and which values or measurements it is based upon are key questions in vascular composite allotransplanation.

Counseling a patient about reconstructive surgery for a traumatic and disfiguring injury requires special consideration.