Hospital lawyers’ practices shape risk management operations, influence clinicians’ morale, and affect patient care.

The best interests of a pregnant psychotic patient can be served by determining her decision making capacity and using surrogate decision making if needed.

This pen and ink drawing reimagines a white coat in the context of medicine’s realistic, not idealized, dynamism.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinions related to decision-making capacity and competence and surrogate decision making.

When evaluating a 10-year-old with leukemia and chemo-induced heart failure for VAD placement, a team considers what to do.

The Body Issue is a graphic memoir exploring cultural and social influences on women’s self-conception and decisions.

Decision aids could help clinicians know when to request ethics consultation or re-evaluate blood product usage in a specific patient care situation.

Women with intellectual disabilities should not be sedated for a pap smear without their assent, and the test’s risks and benefits should be weighed.

Women with intellectual disabilities should not be sedated for a pap smear without their assent, and the test’s risks and benefits should be weighed.

Legal inconsistencies and variation in end-of-life options generate disparities in care for unrepresented patients.