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.

Designation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as a medically underserved population would not solve problems of access to care.

Equal access is a goal even when patients present with taboo illnesses. But, the date of a patient’s last drink still matters.

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

Women with disabilities may be prevented access to reproductive medicine due to discrimination and mistaken assumptions about disabled people.