Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused.

Supporting burn patients physically, psychologically, and emotionally during their recovery can be a challenge. This month on Ethics Talk, we explore how medical teams can ensure that patients are given the holistic care they need.

This photograph depicts a gateway at the Oud Sint-Janshospitaal, a medieval Flemish hospital.

Dr Emma Cooke joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Holland Kaplan: “How Should Technology-Dependent Patients’ Care Be Managed Collaboratively to Avoid Turfing?”

Technology-dependent inpatients are commonly turfed, either between general services or from subspecialty to general services.

An exploration of whether artificial nutrition and hydration is judged to be extraordinary care in Catholic health care ethics.

Physicians and surrogates should take patients' preferences into account in making clinical intervention decisions, even if the patients have been found to lack decision-making capacity.

Physicians and surrogates should take patients' preferences into account in making clinical intervention decisions, even if the patients have been found to lack decision-making capacity.

Physicians and surrogates should take patients' preferences into account in making clinical intervention decisions, even if the patients have been found to lack decision-making capacity.

Clinicians should strive to see the dignity and humanity in patients characterized as “difficult” from a psychoanalytic perspective.