Using social media tools in health-related research involves challenges to confidentiality, privacy, and consent.

AI models might advance human welfare in unprecedented ways, but progress will not occur without substantial risks that will have to be managed.

Framing risk management goals as patient centered and evidence based helps align them with goals of ethics.

Patients can now easily view their health records, so clinicians must consider a reader’s interpretation of how they convey sensitive personal health information. What might this mean for ethics consultants?

Most women requesting pregnancy termination have already decided to undergo an abortion, but some jurisdictions have implemented strategies to induce doubt and regret.

Social media platforms and organizational websites that facilitate organ procurement should respect potential donors’ autonomy and confidentiality.

This photograph depicts a gateway at the Oud Sint-Janshospitaal, a medieval Flemish hospital.

This article considers which risks AI-facilitated surgical robotics pose for safety, confidentiality, informed consent, and surgical training. 

Telehealth offers access and quality opportunities for some patients with mental illness.

Dr Chad M. Teven joins Ethics Talk to unravel some current and a few hoped-for surgical applications of AI and to model for us how we should be critically engaging with AI surgical research and scholarship.