Until the mid-20th century, birth in the United States for Latinx Indigenous peoples was an ancestral ceremony guided by midwives and traditional healers.

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

Training in a segregated health care system means that health professions students and trainees learn bias and experience helplessness and burnout.

This article canvasses states’ legal prohibitions and challenges to them and considers consequences for clinicians and patients.

Clinical facts and physicians’ ethical obligations are critical in resolving disagreements between parents and physicians about resuscitation of an extremely premature infant.

A summary of the legal cases that have set precedence for the rights of physicians and surrogates when life-sustaining treatment is withdrawn from patients who cannot make the final decision for themselves.

Physicians need to understand their roles and limitations of their own faith in providing end-of-life care.

Physicians are obligated in many jurisdictions to perform life-sustaining treatments on premature infants with serious developmental or physical impairments, even if it goes against the parents' wishes.