Dr Allie Slemon joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Shivinder Dhari: “When Should Inpatient Psychiatric Care Include Access to the Outdoors, Despite Elopement or Other Risks?”

Kala T. Pham joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Rachel W. Davis: “Ethics of Learning Surgical Autonomy in Safety-Net Hospital Systems With Patients Who Are Incarcerated.”

Surgeons have important legal and ethical obligations to patients who are incarcerated and accompanied by carceral facility personnel.

Los cirujanos tienen importantes obligaciones legales y éticas hacia los pacientes que están encarcelados y acompañados por personal de centros carcelarios.

Safety-net hospitals care for patients who are incarcerated and are key environments in which surgical trainees learn to wield their professional autonomy.

Iatrogenic harms of so-called “zero-risk” approaches must be balanced against promoting patients’ goals of care.