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

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

Word usage and intentional clarity will influence how patients feel about that Whipple pancreaticoduodenectomy surgery.

Clinician-family communication in surgical intensive care units should focus on reducing value incongruence and nonbeneficial operations.

A surgeon’s duty is to identify goals of care, including those about quality of life, from a patient’s perspective and to consider how to achieve them.

Differentiating between best palliative care options and the curative and palliative potential of surgery is key to developing dual intentional clarity.

This article examines conceptual limitations of extant accounts of palliative psychiatry, with a focus on obligations to distinguish among and clearly formulate goals of care. 

Most meat and poultry plants have on-site workplace clinics where workers are required to obtain care for work-related injuries or illnesses.

This article offers a risk management standpoint on environmental services as a mission-critical function of any health care organization.

Little attention has been given to roles played by human trafficking in health care organizations’ supply chains of key equipment, such as hand sanitizers and gloves.