Focusing on social processes contributing to marginalization can help clinicians and policy makers mitigate food insecurity risk through improved patient-centered care.

Current QoL conversations in HTx could be enhanced by a phenomenological account of temporality, embodiment, and intersubjectivity.

Ethical and practical problems with preference modeling can undermine how reliably predictors can be used in high-stakes decisions.

Reliance on disclosure rather than understanding has prompted shared decision making and represents an important cultural change in clinical practice.

Humor studies have traditionally lived in the rather unfunny world of philosophy departments. Thankfully, psychologists and neuroscientists study mechanisms of humor and laughter, too.

A recent model categorizes comic styles that can help us examine whether and when humor is a virtue in health care professionalism.

The four-quadrant approach can illuminate ethical issues in burn care related to decision-making capacity, respect for autonomy, and medical futility.

At their best, good systems allow space for the practical judgment of health care professionals to achieve justice in the particular actions of their daily practice.

Uncertainty about which psychiatric interventions are palliative stems from psychiatry’s prioritization of symptom management regardless of diagnosis. 

This article examines conceptual limitations of extant accounts of palliative psychiatry, with a focus on obligations to distinguish among and clearly formulate goals of care.