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.

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

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

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

Rather than relying on decision aids, values-based approaches to decision making illuminate a plurality of possible right actions.

How information is provided can change a choice. Decision science helps reveal affective forecasting errors and can generate choices congruent with patients’ and families’ values.

The authors further consider the merits of preventing ECMO from becoming a default treatment.

Decision aids could help clinicians know when to request ethics consultation or re-evaluate blood product usage in a specific patient care situation.

A graphic memoir documents clinical and ethical disagreements and decision points throughout a paramedic team’s time with an incarcerated patient in labor.

Regulations’ negative influence on patient-physician relationships can be mitigated by innovation in decision science.