Dr Helen Stanton Chapple joins Ethics Talk to talk about teaching health professions students and trainees about acknowledging and realizing dying in a healthy way.

The ethical, medical, and system-related obstacles to providing care for prisoners with severe mental illness and the considerations that should guide decisions about isolating them.

As machine learning becomes increasingly common in health care, these systems’ data, algorithms, and recommendations raise critical justice questions.

Disparities in children’s mental health care could be addressed through expansion of school-based programs via passage of the Mental Health in Schools Act.

Veterans at the end of life have special needs due to posttraumatic stress disorder, environmental exposures, and the influence of military culture on their values. Those who die outside the Veterans Affairs health care system, however, can be at increased risk for receiving outpatient palliative care that is not sensitive to these factors.

Risks of off-label medication to treat aggression should be balanced with consequences of not responding to social factors.

Decision-making capacity can be preserved in patients with mental illness and should be formally assessed in the context of their values and past decisions.

Racial and ethnic inequity exists throughout the lifespan, including at the end of life.

While men are diagnosed with depression at half the rate of women, they die by suicide 3 to 4 times as frequently.