Robert Ledbetter and Dr Buddy Marterre join Ethics Talk to discuss their article: “Where’s the Value in Preoperative Covenants Between Surgeons and Patients?”

Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law.

Lack of ethical, legal, and clinical consensus about best practice sometimes combines with a poor clinical evidence base.

When responding to an ad for a job caring for patient-detainees along the US southern border, applicants should anticipate the need to navigate dual loyalties.

Although organ donation conflicts with self-interest, because donation is vital to the community, interventions to increase it are ethically justified.