Affect labeling during painful bias incidents helps caregivers identify their duties to patients while enabling their own healing.

When patients express overt racism, caregivers need to feel safe and supported. The scope of organizations’ responsibilities to make that happen needs to be clearly defined.

Patient-physician concordance is a matter of degree. In certain circumstances, greater concordance can motivate important goals of medicine.

Case analysis illuminates strategies clinicians can use to reconcile competing duties to patients on ECMO.

Extracorporeal Life Support Organization guidelines emphasize proportionality and benefit/risk analyses in decision making.

When evaluating a 10-year-old with leukemia and chemo-induced heart failure for VAD placement, a team considers what to do.

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.

A form of aripiprazole places unique ethical and clinical demands on mental health professionals.

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

Ethical stakes include a psychiatrist’s care management responsibilities and burdens borne by family members over the course of the patient’s care.