On this episode of Ethics Talk, Editorial Fellow Dr C. Alessandra Colaianni describes the creation of this month’s issue on palliative surgery, and Dr Wynne Morrison explains how to explore palliative surgical goal formation with children and their guardians.

Some technological and policy strategies for increasing organ supplies are ethically and legally proven to work. Consider best next steps for global education efforts to raise organ donation awareness.

Because transplantation for methylmalonic acidaemia prioritizes quality of life over long-term outcomes, justice and utility must be considered.

Equal access is a goal even when patients present with taboo illnesses. But, the date of a patient’s last drink still matters.

Clinicians must avoid violating professional ethical principles and patients’ legal rights and they may not ever discriminate. So, what does that mean in practice?

Trainees are expected to encounter clinical training environments and situations that utilize force methods.

When police officers and clinicians perceive a moral transgression committed by an agent responding to risk in the field, they are susceptible to moral injury.

Health professions educators should reform pedagogy on race, when clinically relevant, to emphasize racism as the root cause of health inequity.

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

Long-acting injectables powerfully augment HIV care, but broad acceptance and uptake could be compromised by what we know about experiences with antipsychotics.