Hydration at the end of life may be much less beneficial than generally assumed, but the emotional significance of nourishment to caregiving should not be underestimated.

While parents often have legal authority to make decisions regarding pediatric palliative care, federal and state statutory and case laws, like CAPTA, impose significant restrictions on that authority.

Racial and ethnic inequity exists throughout the lifespan, including at the end of life.

Close listening is a teachable skill set in which clinicians focus sensory attention on a patient and cultivate space before speaking.

One health professions school views the Holocaust as fundamental content knowledge in modern health care ethics, but teaching it is difficult.

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.

Antiracism practices in museums inform how clinicians can orient themselves to their professions’ roles in the Holocaust.

When we approach art with awe and treat medicine as serious business, perhaps we’re depriving ourselves of the funniest tool in the health and wellness toolbox.

Before a deadly heroin overdose at 27, Jean-Michel Basquiat finished an electrically vibrant skull, prompting questions today about arts donations generated by opioid profits.

Critical race theory tools of evaluating stock characters and counter stories can help clinicians and researchers illuminate experiences of those at the margins.