This commentary on a case argues there are 2 reasons why physicians, in particular, should help avert nuclear war.

This commentary suggests extinction medicine competencies, who might become an extinction medicine clinician, and how the specialty might be launched.

This commentary on a case introduces 3 critical approaches to a case: equivalence, further-loss, and pro-extinctionist.

In prehospital settings, clinicians make difficult decisions that need to be made quickly and be within their scope of practice and skill set.

Ethics and science inform EMTs’ and paramedics’ decisions to initiate, continue, or terminate resuscitation.

Assessing and adequately documenting a patient’s decision-making capacity is a responsibility and skill required of all EMS personnel.

Private equity firms’ acquisition and management of physicians’ practices have been associated with increased cost and diminished quality.

Private equity companies have no ethical or legal duties to patients and strive to maximize financial returns for their investors.

Surgeons have important legal and ethical obligations to patients who are incarcerated and accompanied by carceral facility personnel.

Patients’ rights to evidence-based standard of care should not be compromised for patients who are incarcerated.