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?"

To make good communication choices for their children who are deaf or hard of hearing, hearing parents must develop their understanding of hearing loss.

Clinicians can practice disability humility by developing social understandings of disability.

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.

Clinicians can practice disability humility by developing social understandings of disability. This can help clinicians improve communication and express respect for patients’ authority about their experiences.