Physicians should be aware of the powerful impact celebrities’ cancer narratives can have on patients’ experiences of their illnesses and treatment decisions. Partnering with celebrities is one strategy for delivering evidence-based health information and messaging to the public.

Clinician-researchers deeply invested in data gathering are still obliged to respect a patient-subject’s right to stop being in research.

Pain management of adult and pediatric burn patients should be individualized and include nonpharmacological treatment.

Ethical and practical problems with preference modeling can undermine how reliably predictors can be used in high-stakes decisions.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics discusses situations in which a surrogate is needed but not available to make health care decisions for a patient.

During immediate and long-term recovery periods, decisions must account for patients’ personal goals and possible clinical outcomes and should clarify what recovery means.

This humorous take on experts’ disagreement about the care of a patient suggests how not to proceed.

Research that places subjects and investigators at risk of additional harm must be considered carefully.

Dr Dónal O’Mathúna joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Nawaraj Upadhaya: “Should Children Be Enrolled in Clinical Research in Conflict Zones?”