Drs Katrina Bramstedt and Ana Iltis discuss the development of QoL assessment tools to help patient-subjects considering reconstructive transplantation.

Dr Sara M. Bergstresser joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Asylums and Harm Embodiment.”

AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Amanda Xi, MD, a transitional year resident at Henry Ford Hospital, interviewed Donald M. Berwick, MD, shortly before the Supreme Court’s decision in King versus Burwell.

AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Emily Johnson, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, interviewed Susan Mizner, JD, about some merits, drawbacks, and alternatives to guardianship.

This month, Virtual Mentor spoke with Dr. Alex Ding and Mr. Jordan VanLare, a fourth-year medical student at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, about their impressions of health reform and how it will impact the medical practice environment they will soon enter.

Dr Ariel A. Williamson joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Should Clinicians Partner With Families to Promote Children’s Sleep Health?”

Tabitha E. H. Moses, MS joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Arash Javanbakht: “How Should Clinicians Determine a Traumatized Patient’s Readiness to Return to Work?”

This month on Ethics Talk, Dr Sheryl Fleisch discusses strategies for delivering health services to people experiencing homelessness, including street psychiatry.

The experience of an English professor dying of ovarian cancer in Margaret Edson’s play Wit shows that both literary and medical discourse obfuscate and objectify rather than promote communication of “simple human truths” that dignify life and death.