End-stage heart failure patients can experience depression along with their chronic illness. Multidisciplinary responses are critical.

Success depends on strong support, rehabilitation, adherence, and social integration.

Transnational monitoring efforts should focus on safety, defining standard of care, and promoting just access to innovation.

This image aims to promote reflection about patients’ feelings of sadness, despair, helplessness, and uncertainty upon being diagnosed.

The DSM-5 Task Force’s handling of the ethical controversy over the bereavement exclusion demonstrates the need for more inclusive deliberative processes.

The communication training program at University of Washington Medical Center aims to develop best practices for effective pathology communication.

When a patient is incompetent and unrepresented, alternative strategies must be implemented to document and try to rectify an error.

Women who are pregnant might not treat their mental illnesses because they overestimate risks of medication and underestimate risks of leaving their illness untreated.

Pastel and oil paint on wood are used to investigate self-preservation during processes of medical training and professionalization.

When errors happen, too often clinicians are at odds with each other about how to respond to a patient or a patient’s loved ones after that patient suffers harm.