Drs Michael Young, Robert Regenhardt, and Leonard Sokol join Ethics Talk to discuss their article, coauthored with Dr Thabele Leslie-Mazwi: "When Should Neuroendovascular Care for Patients With Acute Stroke Be Palliative?"

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

Patients’ adherence to recommendations can unjustly influence their candidacy for a current intervention.

Critical race theory tools of evaluating stock characters and counter stories can help clinicians and researchers illuminate experiences of those at the margins.

Medicine has always maintained social, political, and economic structures that have exacerbated Black and Brown persons’ lived embodiment of racism.

Raciolinguistic hierarchies can undermine the quality of Latinx patients’ health experiences.

For some patients whose survival is extended by disease-modifying interventions, little guidance about clinical and ethical complexities exist.

Guidance about sedation to unconsciousness and medically ineffective interventions can be applied to surgical palliation.

Most clinicians receive little training in integrating Native healing into allopathic practice, which undermines patients’ autonomy and cultural values.

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