Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria.

This article considers relevant history that informs the AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinions about neurological criteria for death.

Death’s legal definition must be responsive to advances in technology, and it must delineate between life and death. Knowing where to draw the line is difficult.

COVID-19 has exposed the US health care system’s poor public health capacity and lack of supply chain resilience. Risk managers’ roles in motivating safety and equity have never been so complex.

Hospital lawyers’ practices shape risk management operations, influence clinicians’ morale, and affect patient care.

Benches represent collective unity and are places of reflection for individual and communal decision making.

Once focused on hospital liability, risk managers now navigate a broader set of enterprise risk management responsibilities.

Psychiatric emergencies, coping stress reactions, and iatrogenic injuries are not responded to with the same vigor as acute medical decompensation. That needs to change.

Risk managers can help patient-subjects and clinician-researchers make informed novel device implantation decisions in the absence of preclinical trial data.

AI models might advance human welfare in unprecedented ways, but progress will not occur without substantial risks that will have to be managed.