The DDR requires organ donors to be dead according to legal criteria prior to organ removal, and it’s rooted in fears of civil and criminal liability.

The Holocaust and the racial hygiene doctrine that helped rationalize it still overshadow contemporary debates about using gene editing for disease prevention.

For an adolescent patient with extreme anorexia nervosa, steps for expressing compassion during a force intervention need to be clear.

Clinicians with obligations to patients and to organizations often assess patients in law enforcement for both therapeutic and nontherapeutic purposes.

A 3-panel comic illustrates an offer of data to pay for health care services.

Patients leaving against medical advice draw attention to intersections of tort law, federal and state regulations, and clinical ethics.

Once focused on hospital liability, risk managers now navigate a broader set of enterprise risk management responsibilities.

Ethical dimensions of risk management are illuminated in AMA Code content on discharge planning.