Ari Ne’eman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, When Disability is Defined by Behavior, Outcome Measures Should Not promote “Passing”.

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.

Drs Pringl Miller, Preeti John, and Sabha Ganai join Ethics Talk to discuss their article: “How Should Surgical Palliative Success Be Defined?”

There are medical, legal, and ethical reasons for supporting language access for less proficient speakers of English who enter the US health system. Article describes policy and regulations that attempt to redress inadequacies in the system.

Kevin Hosseini’s painting of his tutor’s dog, Bella.

Communication and nonpaternalistic counseling are crucial to women delivering extremely premature infants.

There is some basis to believe that many people place newborns in a special moral category.

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity.