Dr Helen Chapple talks about eliciting and honoring patients’ health care preferences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For some patients whose survival is extended by disease-modifying interventions, little guidance about clinical and ethical complexities exist.

Hospital lawyers’ practices shape risk management operations, influence clinicians’ morale, and affect patient care.

A patient’s transition from “living” to “dying” is not socially marked in the same way death is marked, and this is both clinically and ethically relevant.

Palliative psychiatry can facilitate compassionate resolution of ethical conflicts in end-of-life care decision making with persons with substance use disorders.