Inequitable care and outcomes experienced by persons with mental illness have long been exacerbated by stigma expressed by clinicians.

When clinicians engage surrogates in video calls showing the patient’s body, several competing ethical questions must be considered.

Tension between realistic goals and unrealistic views about how to achieve them is compounded when patients are eager to revise a prior surgeon’s gender-affirming procedure.

Dr Laura Kolbe joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Ryan H. Nelson, Joelle Robertson-Preidler, Olivia Schuman, and Inmaculada de Melo-Martín: “Is a Video Worth a Thousand Words?”

Dr Kristen R. Choi joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Bantale Ayisire: “When Experiencing Inequitable Health Care Is a Patient’s Norm, How Should Iatrogenic Harm Be Considered?”

Despite common outcomes of GRS, decision making about surgical care differs among patients across the lifespan.

This article suggests strategies for how to disclose the nature and scope of resident surgeon involvement in managing intraoperative care.

This article considers which risks AI-facilitated surgical robotics pose for safety, confidentiality, informed consent, and surgical training. 

More frequent use of robotic-assisted surgeries means we need to ask more questions about care quality and equity, informed consent, and conflicts of interest.