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

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.

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

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

Since clinics are economic hubs in some communities, consequences of a clinic closing or moving are numerous.

Social determinants and freedom situate newcomers’ capacity for well-being.

Using emergency departments as revenue streams could violate ethical and legal standards about hospitals’ roles in communities.

Clinical applications of AI prompt consideration of how responsibility should be distributed among professionals, tech companies, and others.

Two concerns (unknowability of how output is derived from input and overreliance on clinical decision support systems) are main sources of ethical questions about AI in health care.