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

Sustainable food services are key dimensions of health care organizations’ civic and stewardship responsibilities to individuals and communities.

Physicians new to a case might object to an established care plan. Practice variation, clinical momentum, and how value is assigned by different parties to acute care and comfort measures can each contribute to conflict in these cases.

Moral distress can be reduced by approaching the patient-physician relationship with empathy and humility, which foster trust and good communication.

Bioethicist Bruce Jennings examines the changing role of physicians in end-of-life care, from paternalistic decision maker to advisor-technician and half-way back.