Dr Travis Rieder discusses his own experiences with opioids and the ethical challenges of “legacy patients,” and Dr Stephanie Zaza, president of the American College of Preventive Medicine, discusses the future of opioid research priorities.

Most women requesting pregnancy termination have already decided to undergo an abortion, but some jurisdictions have implemented strategies to induce doubt and regret.

Good health care for elders requires acute ethical attention to the role of ageism as a pervasive source of bias.

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

This commentary on a case considers the course of a palliative approach to care of a patient with a serious and persistent mental illness.

Futility can function as a moral counterweight to a duty to treat, helping clinicians  find balance between over- and undertreatment. 

Dr Anne Graff LaDisa joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Erica Chou, Amy Zelenski, and Sara Lauck: “How to Use Improv to Help Interprofessional Students Respond to Status and Hierarchy in Clinical Practice.”

An emerging and important goal of health professions training is to develop a workforce equipped to address structural determinants of patients’ health.

Dr Whitney V. Cabey joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Nicolle K. Strand and Erin Marshall: “What Might It Mean to Embrace Emancipatory Pedagogy in Medical Education?”

Dr Joost van Herten joins Ethics Talk to discuss how comparing different conceptions of health can help us interrogate just exactly what a One Health approach to health offers and what it doesn't.