Ideally, patients and clinicians should have sufficient time to engage in SDM. In reality, time is often insufficient.

Parallels between domestic and international education experiences reiterate emphasis on service.

Reimagining a classic responds to modern demands on patient-clinician relationships while suggesting the persistence of this relationship’s sanctity.

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) protocols vary by surgery type and are compared, clinically and ethically, to traditional protocols.

In isolation, we are physically apart; in solidarity, we are together. The COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes our social responsibility to maintain physical distance from one another. In doing so, we solidify our collective strength.

When errors happen, too often clinicians are at odds with each other about how to respond to a patient or a patient’s loved ones after that patient suffers harm.

Anesthesiologists regularly take breaks during operations, but surgeons do so rarely. Current literature describes the influence of breaks on attention, focus, and stamina.

Surgeons and anesthesiologists each have a unique sense of duty to patients to clarify which factors might influence outcomes after intraoperative cardiac arrest.

Clinicians have duties to express regard for the breadth and depth of their influence on patients’ pre- and postsurgical self-understandings.

Ear, nose, and throat procedures in intraoperative environments often involve surgeons’ and anesthesiologists’ use of shared and sometimes competing approaches to managing a patient’s airway.