Tara Montgomery and Dr Zackary Berger discuss how to address some health care cultures’ negative influences on service delivery and quality.

Two pediatric cases highlight risks of prolonging anesthetic exposure for training purposes and prompt questions about influences of surgical training on outcomes.

Medical expert witnesses are ethically and legally obligated to provide honest testimony that meets the standards of the Daubert test.

When we approach art with awe and treat medicine as serious business, perhaps we’re depriving ourselves of the funniest tool in the health and wellness toolbox.

Transplant physicians must respect indecisive patients’ autonomy while continuing to educate them during their progress towards transplantation.

Despite clear donor consent, health professionals must communicate clearly about death to family members to avoid confusion.

Alternatives to suing could help open communication between injured patients and clinicians.

Undocumented immigrants treated with isoniazid (INH) for latent tuberculosis infection should be covered for transplant for INH-related liver failure.

Since the 1970s, various factors have generated a shift in medical culture from the prioritization of individual autonomy to relational autonomy

Misinformation is an urgent new problem, so health professions communities need solutions as much as they need to be wary of ethical pitfalls of rushed interventions.