Ari Ne’eman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, When Disability is Defined by Behavior, Outcome Measures Should Not promote “Passing”.

Burn care physicians must walk a fine line between providing individualized care and applying population-based quality metrics.

Wound care curricula in medical school would help address problems associated with chronic wounds and overtriage of burn injuries.

Trauma care presumes informed consent for treatment, but resident supervision is required within a training structure of graduated responsibility.

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

The convening power of clinical ethics committees stems from their reputation for fairness and procedural legitimacy in addressing and resolving ethically complex cases.

Physicians new to a case might object to an established care plan. Practice variation, clinical momentum, and how value is assigned by different parties to acute care and comfort measures can each contribute to conflict in these cases.

Teams are smartest when everyone feels free to speak up and function best when leadership is inclusive and patient-focused.

The harms of communicating autism risk can be avoided by helping families to understand risk and to distinguish between poor and good sources of scientific information, which should take families’ interests into account.

Evaluation of an autism curriculum for pediatric residents yielded significant short-term gains in residents’ objective and self-assessed knowledge of autism spectrum disorder diagnosis and treatment.