This pen and ink drawing reimagines a white coat in the context of medicine’s realistic, not idealized, dynamism.

Dr Mitesh Patel joins us on this episode of Ethics Talk to discuss nudges, how they can be used effectively in health care, and how to identify and avoid the potential ethical pitfalls of guiding behavior.

Interventions’ influences on decision making situate clinician performance evaluations in key ways.

Pain is the most common reason patients seek health care. The AMA Pain Care Task Force suggests how clinicians can offer good pain care and become savvy about situating themselves in the health care system to do so.

Six recommendations focus on specific actions to help reverse the nation’s opioid epidemic.

Mandating processes that are not evidence based generates distress among patients and clinicians, so physician advocacy in national, state, and local policymaking is key.

Anesthesiologists regularly take breaks during operations, but surgeons do so rarely. Current literature describes the influence of breaks on attention, focus, and stamina.

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) protocols vary by surgery type and are compared, clinically and ethically, to traditional protocols.

Facial transplantation must establish approaches to assessing QoL in candidates and recipients that use meaningful outcomes.

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