Calls to expand palliative care education have been explicit since the 1990s, but palliative care training in surgery remains too narrowly focused on end of life.

Seeming incongruity between surgery and palliation reiterates patients’ needs for clinicians to be able to identify when and how they should coexist.

“Race” is a product of European-American views of phenotypic and cultural differences and continues to influence Native health decision making.

Responding to patients violating US health commerce regulations can be critical when they buy and use unproven interventions.

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.

As machine learning becomes increasingly common in health care, these systems’ data, algorithms, and recommendations raise critical justice questions.

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

Following evidence-based approaches to evaluating and reporting suspicion of child maltreatment can help minimize bias and promote equity.