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.

Equal access is a goal even when patients present with taboo illnesses. But, the date of a patient’s last drink still matters.

This month on Ethics Talk, Dr Sheryl Fleisch discusses strategies for delivering health services to people experiencing homelessness, including street psychiatry.

After the Indiana HIV outbreak in 2015, Congress partially repealed the ban on needle exchange programs, providing funding for operations but not syringes.

Clinicians must express humility, understand local culture, collaborate, and develop an insider’s perspective on past and present life.

This commentary explores legal, ethical, and practical considerations for pharmacists and prescribers working together to address uncertainty in drug prescribing.

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.

Clinicians must advocate for decriminalization of SUDs during pregnancy and for improving access to comprehensive, evidence-based care.