Transnational monitoring efforts should focus on safety, defining standard of care, and promoting just access to innovation.

International humanitarian law obliges clinicians to coordinate with local civilian, military, and nongovernment organizations, and implementation isn't easy.

Crises can require all clinicians to modify practice priorities during extreme circumstances.

Professor Martin Bricknell joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Professors David Whetham, Richard Sullivan, and Peter Mahoney: “How Should Access to Military Health Care Facilities Be Controlled in Conflict?”

Dr Hunter Jackson Smith joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Joseph Procaccino and Dr Megan Applewhite: “How Should Military Health Care Workers Respond When Conflict Reaches the Hospital?”

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.

Online tools intended to make health care purchasing resemble “consumerism” have had little effect on improving transparency for patients.