Dr Frederic G. Reamer joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “Why Care-Based, Not Carceral, Approaches to Suspects With Mental Illness Is Key to Whether We Trust Professional or State Authority Ever Again”

No single person should make decisions about for whom or according to which criteria palliative surgery is clinically and ethically appropriate.

When surgical intervention is most appropriate, success should be defined by how well a surgical intervention aligns with a patient’s goals.

For some patients whose survival is extended by disease-modifying interventions, little guidance about clinical and ethical complexities exist.

Calls to expand palliative care education have been explicit since the 1990s, but palliative care training in surgery remains too narrowly focused on end of life.

Guidance about sedation to unconsciousness and medically ineffective interventions can be applied to surgical palliation.

Seeming incongruity between surgery and palliation reiterates patients’ needs for clinicians to be able to identify when and how they should coexist.

Involuntary commitment is often traumatic and can fracture already fragile relationships persons experiencing homeless have.

Chicago Street Medicine implements HHC to improve health outcomes and care continuity for patients experiencing homelessness.

Hospital lawyers’ practices shape risk management operations, influence clinicians’ morale, and affect patient care.