Perhaps machine learning systems trained on patients’ electronic health records and social media footprints could be used as decision aids when patients lack capacity or face overwhelming decisions.

This artwork represents—via a puzzle—physical and emotional experiences of brain deterioration.

When a patient is incompetent and unrepresented, alternative strategies must be implemented to document and try to rectify an error.

Limited understanding of disease etiology often leads to resistance, which can result in low vaccine uptake.

Legacy patients are so-called because their opioid use behaviors express past, aggressive opioid prescribing by a clinician. Managing their pain and dependence justly is ethically complex.

A 3-step analgesic ladder was introduced in 1986 and needs change. Surgical interventions could reduce opioid use and motivate expansion of current pain management approaches.

Alternatives to suing could help open communication between injured patients and clinicians.

Poor oral health has been neglected as a public health threat, despite recognition as “epidemic” in scale by the US Office of the Surgeon General.

Lindsey E. Carlasare joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Gerald B. Hickson: “Whose Responsibility Is It to Address Bullying in Health Care?”

The Nordic model policy option for addressing commercial sex—which exempts sellers from criminal penalties—offers several potential advantages.