This artwork represents—via a puzzle—physical and emotional experiences of brain deterioration.

CPR has become default treatment for all patients in cardiac arrest. The history of how this happened demonstrates the power of CPT coding.

Palliation goals should inform MCS therapy duration, symptom management, and advance care planning and facilitate communication.

This series of 3 paintings of figures in a bath explores emotional responses of persons experiencing or responding to others’ moral distress. Intricately tied together and connected through time and space, the bodies represented suggest a complex web of relationships between clinicians and patients.

When weighing potential benefits of technological advancement against risks of harm, clinicians should prioritize duties to patients.

Linda’s story suggests ways to take better care of terminally and chronically ill patients at home by listening in different ways.

Patients have a right to decline or withdraw LVADs. Informed consent and shared decision making is not easy, however, with treatments that are high risk, high reward.

Life extension requires careful consideration of resource scarcity, justice, and what, if anything, is intrinsic to the experiences we define as human.

When an unproven intervention is a nanodrug, a physician’s role is especially difficult due to possibilities of unprecedented harms.

Nanoscale materials used to diagnose, monitor, prevent, and treat disease have revolutionized how we think about disease etiology at atomic, molecular, and macromolecular levels. How should ethics respond?