When a clinician refuses to do a procedure consistent with standard of care for a patient, legal resources can be helpful.

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

Professor Katie Watson joins Ethics Talk to discuss what clinicians need to know about changes to the post-June 2022 legal, ethical, and clinical landscape of abortion care in the US.

The social institutions of medicine and the state have a complex history of interaction in which doctors have been the originators of political ideals, goals, and social change but equally often have found themselves to be instruments of political authority.

This article canvasses states’ legal prohibitions and challenges to them and considers consequences for clinicians and patients.

An examination of how a doctor should counsel a pregnant woman through the ethical and medical challenges of being diagnosed with stage II cervical cancer.

Adolescents should receive comprehensive sex education that includes information about both sexual abstinence and contraception.

Pediatricians should not opt out of caring for children of same-sex couples due to anti-gay beliefs or bias.

There are many challenges that need to be overcome before a regulating body can be established to oversee surgical procedures and devices.

Physicians have an ethical duty to provide safe and effective care to patients even when the care conflicts with their own personal values.