Drs Michael Young, Robert Regenhardt, and Leonard Sokol join Ethics Talk to discuss their article, coauthored with Dr Thabele Leslie-Mazwi: "When Should Neuroendovascular Care for Patients With Acute Stroke Be Palliative?"

Raciolinguistic hierarchies can undermine the quality of Latinx patients’ health experiences.

No single person should make decisions about for whom or according to which criteria palliative surgery is clinically and ethically appropriate.

When surgical intervention is most appropriate, success should be defined by how well a surgical intervention aligns with a patient’s goals.

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

Calls to expand palliative care education have been explicit since the 1990s, but palliative care training in surgery remains too narrowly focused on end of life.

Guidance about sedation to unconsciousness and medically ineffective interventions can be applied to surgical palliation.

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

Helping patients mitigate their risk of chronic disease is key, but dietary supplements are risky.

Some allopathic clinicians’ biases influence the information they draw upon to make decisions and offer recommendations.