Two pediatric cases highlight risks of prolonging anesthetic exposure for training purposes and prompt questions about influences of surgical training on outcomes.

Label analysis is key to educating patients about risks of vitamin A-containing supplements.

Dr Rajani Katta joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dina H. Zamil, Emily K. Burns, and Dr Ariadna Perez-Sanchez: “Do You Know How to Assess Risks Posed by Over-the-Counter Vitamin A Supplements?”

Following evidence-based approaches to evaluating and reporting suspicion of child maltreatment can help minimize bias and promote equity.

Intergenerational trauma has deep roots, which require clinicians to understand historical and cultural context when working with vulnerable children.

How society and medicine discussed and responded to child abuse changed dramatically in 1962. Since that time, the problem’s fuller scope has been revealed.

Diagnostic utility of weight and body mass index is widely overestimated, and their use as health and wellness measures can be sources of iatrogenic harm. 

These key steps are ones health sector stakeholders should take to help patients and clinicians use pricing information to inform health decision making.

For dying patients and their loved ones to make informed decisions, physicians must share adequate information about prognoses, prospective benefits and harms of specific interventions, and costs.

Dr Michael J. Oldani joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “Papal Doctrines’ Deep Trauma Legacies in Minoritized Communities.”