For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life.

A history of device oversight by the US Food and Drug Administration traces regulatory changes in response to injuries caused by Dalkon Shield intrauterine devices.

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.

During or after conflict, a clinician might be required to provide evidence to an official investigatory body or court.

Dr Jody Steinauer joins Ethics Talk to discuss possible responses to what the Dobbs decision demands of clinician-teachers.

Professor Katie Watson joins Ethics Talk to consider key questions about clinical and legal risk management for clinicians trying keep patients safe and for patients with complex pregnancies trying to stay alive.

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.

Extraordinary changes to the legal landscape of abortion care require reevaluating health professionals’ appropriation of conscience.