Robert Ledbetter and Dr Buddy Marterre join Ethics Talk to discuss their article: “Where’s the Value in Preoperative Covenants Between Surgeons and Patients?”

Lack of ethical, legal, and clinical consensus about best practice sometimes combines with a poor clinical evidence base.

When responding to an ad for a job caring for patient-detainees along the US southern border, applicants should anticipate the need to navigate dual loyalties.

Black women living with HIV contend with injuries of injustice that influence their reproductive lives.

Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization.

For an adolescent patient with extreme anorexia nervosa, steps for expressing compassion during a force intervention need to be clear.

Covert medication administration might be as forceful as physical or chemical restraint for patients lacking insight.