Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused.

This first-person narrative illuminates how the author—a nurse, artist, and dancer—uses the arts and movement to help patients and clinicians process personal loss individually and collectively in the hospital setting.

Health system function, resilience, and sustainability are needed to help prepare trainees to lead, innovate, and prioritize a circular supply chain with low emissions.

Dr Nisha M. Patel joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Jesse M. Ehrenfeld and Brian J. Miller: “What Should ‘Shopping’ Look Like in Actual Practice?”

Tara Rynders joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How the Arts Help Us Hold Grief and Maintain Collective Care.”

Psychiatric emergencies, coping stress reactions, and iatrogenic injuries are not responded to with the same vigor as acute medical decompensation. That needs to change.

This photograph depicts a gateway at the Oud Sint-Janshospitaal, a medieval Flemish hospital.

An exploration of whether artificial nutrition and hydration is judged to be extraordinary care in Catholic health care ethics.

Clinicians should strive to see the dignity and humanity in patients characterized as “difficult” from a psychoanalytic perspective.