Dr Helen Stanton Chapple joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: "Solidarity in Mortal Time.”

For dying patients and their loved ones to make informed decisions, physicians must share adequate information about prognoses, prospective benefits and harms of specific interventions, and costs.

The concept of mortal time is useful for exploring how hospice care frameworks might help nonhospice clinicians find calm in practice.

Dr Susan Veldheer joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Daniel R. George: "Strategies to Help Health Care Organizations Execute Their Food System Leadership Responsibilities.”

Since health organizations offer food, they are situated at key intersections of agricultural policies and practices and public health.

A gynecologic oncology ethics education program intended to engage students and foster open exchange was designed after review of ethics consults at a tertiary cancer center over a 15-year period.

The George Washington University has taken the lead in preparing trainees to meet patients’ spiritual needs by integrating spirituality into its curriculum, developing a training program for teaching interprofessional spiritual care, and designing spirituality-related competency behaviors.

Plastic surgeons who use patient images for online advertising should ensure informed consent and not exploit the patient-physician relationship for gain.

How can clinicians respond to the health challenges associated with global climate change? This month on Ethics Talk, we learn about how art can communicate the health effects of climate change, the challenges that hot and humid days pose for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and what the global health risk of climate change means for individual clinicians.

Advertising a plastic surgery practice on social media can be ethically fraught, and deceptive online marketing techniques can lead to patients feeling betrayed.