Differentiating between best palliative care options and the curative and palliative potential of surgery is key to developing dual intentional clarity.

Pregnant women at high risk for heritable diseases need support and nondirective genetic counseling.

Global health training offered through UCSF’s EMPOWUR program prepares ob/gyn residents to work in under-resourced communities locally as well as globally.

Refusal of pediatric euthanasia can be considered iatrogenic insofar as it inadvertently prolongs patient suffering, but attitudes differ cross-culturally.

The physician’s duty extends beyond treating individual patients to reporting public health threats when they are identified.