This digital still from a narrated animated portrait depicts a woman overwhelmed by her body’s failure and by a health care system’s failure to care well.

A 3-panel comic illustrates an offer of data to pay for health care services.

This series of 5 color oil on canvas sketches includes a sequence of images and illuminates one patient’s postoperative experiences.

Clinicians can practice disability humility by developing social understandings of disability.

When surgical intervention is most appropriate, success should be defined by how well a surgical intervention aligns with a patient’s goals.

A surgeon’s duty is to identify goals of care, including those about quality of life, from a patient’s perspective and to consider how to achieve them.

For some patients whose survival is extended by disease-modifying interventions, little guidance about clinical and ethical complexities exist.

Clinician-family communication in surgical intensive care units should focus on reducing value incongruence and nonbeneficial operations.

A physician may withhold information from a patient if he believes that he is acting in accordance with the patient’s wishes and best interests.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres' and Gregg Bordowitz’s works express their experiences of living through a pandemic and subsequent social change and draw out key human rights themes.