The US Supreme Court has allowed race-conscious admissions when a school’s purpose is to diversify an incoming class but not to remediate inequity.

For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life.

Dr Ariane Lewis discusses how we can navigate uncertainty and ambiguity about brain death by understanding clinical criteria for brain death determination and how our approaches to death are culturally and socially situated.

Ethical dimensions of risk management are illuminated in AMA Code content on discharge planning.

Successful telemedicine ethics consultation requires knowledge of relevant laws and, for videoconferences, the physical presence of a meeting leader.

Telemedicine is fast becoming a reliable medium for convening ethics deliberations and bringing expert assistance to remote locations.

Clinicians in postconflict health care settings can be tasked with caring for patients who were enemies.

Christopher W. Reynolds joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Camilo Sánchez Meertens: “How Should Health Systems Help Clinicians Manage Bias Against Ex-combatants?”

Dr Shawn G. Gibbs joins Ethics Talk to discuss industrial hygiene, biocontainment, and how to build more sustainable health systems.