AMA Journal of Ethics

VCA candidates need clinicians to help them become familiar with experimental surgery eligibility criteria, prior and possible outcomes, and potential risks and benefits.

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.

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