Bioethicist Bruce Jennings examines the changing role of physicians in end-of-life care, from paternalistic decision maker to advisor-technician and half-way back.

Physicians do not have to give therapies or perform procedures that they judge to be futile and Catholic patients have the moral right to determine what is extraordinary or ordinary care.

The greatest pressure to resuscitate the extremely low-birth-weight infant often results from successful marketing efforts that lead families to expect that their premature infants will be cute and healthy.

Refusal of pediatric euthanasia can be considered iatrogenic insofar as it inadvertently prolongs patient suffering, but attitudes differ cross-culturally.

This article suggests how organizations can help surgeons experiencing regret and help sustain their impulses to practice.

Este artículo sugiere cómo las organizaciones pueden ayudar a los cirujanos que experimentan arrepentimiento y ayudarlos a mantener sus impulsos para ejercer.

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

Seeming incongruity between surgery and palliation reiterates patients’ needs for clinicians to be able to identify when and how they should coexist.

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.

Antimicrobial resistance is a looming pandemic, and poor health outcomes will not be borne equitably.