Chaplains can mediate between physicians and families by clarifying religious issues for physicians, who can then present treatment options informed by a patient’s priorities. Ideally, family and religious values and a physician’s judgment should work together to inform decision making.

This drawing of two hands—one holding pills and another, a rosary—illustrates how clinicians seeking to provide compassionate care must balance maintaining their professional boundaries with understanding of patients’ spirituality.

Caring for severe burn injuries in low- and middle-income countries requires making decisions about resource allocation given particular contextual factors.

The four-quadrant approach can illuminate ethical issues in burn care related to decision-making capacity, respect for autonomy, and medical futility.

Pain management of adult and pediatric burn patients should be individualized and include nonpharmacological treatment.

Although identical twin-to-twin skin grafting has resulted in excellent survival rates in burn patients, the nature and scope of ethical decision making in monozygotic sibling skin grafting needs further examination.

In 1973, Dax Cowart was critically injured in a propane gas explosion. The ensuing care that he received, despite his opposition to it, prompted him to advocate for the view that it was wrong for clinicians to disregard his wish to be allowed to die.

Physicians’ creative writing is a form of narrative ethics that can mitigate burnout and promote new ways of engaging with burn patients and caregivers.

Withdrawing care for cosmetic reasons in cases of severe burns is examined in light of ethical principles guiding surrogates’ and clinicians’ roles.

Suspected child abuse cases can be identified and repeat hospitalizations of such cases prevented using multidisciplinary teams to evaluate pediatric burns.