Dr Christy Cauley joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Zara Cooper: "Which Priorities Should Guide Palliative Surgical Research?"

Calls to expand palliative care education have been explicit since the 1990s, but palliative care training in surgery remains too narrowly focused on end of life.

Priorities far beyond generating morbidity or mortality data are needed to improve patients’ experiences, innovate metrics, and advance surgical palliation as a field.

This article suggests how to better identify older adults with mental illness at risk for placement that won’t meet their needs.

An aging prison population means more people who are incarcerated will experience dementia and related symptoms.

Ari Ne’eman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “How Should We Address Warehousing Persons With Serious Mental Illness in Nursing Homes?”

A physician should protect the best interest of the patient and the patient's family in the event that an end-of-life case gains media attention and the treating physician and nontreating physicians are asked to comment.

A physician should protect the best interest of the patient and the patient's family in the event that an end-of-life case gains media attention and the treating physician and nontreating physicians are asked to comment.

Physicians need to help surrogate decision makers to make treatment and end-of-life decisions for those with severe neurological damage by proving a realistic prognosis and maintain strong lines of communication.

Racial and ethnic inequity exists throughout the lifespan, including at the end of life.