Being close enough to patients to care is as critical as remaining distant enough from a pathogen to be safe. This strategy simultaneously frustrates and supports public trust.

Epidemics can threaten everyone on earth, yet responses are not implemented in all regions to contain disease.

Decision aids could help clinicians know when to request ethics consultation or re-evaluate blood product usage in a specific patient care situation.

Current evidence suggests how hospice and palliative care clinicians can help advocate for high-quality, end-of-life care for patients with obesity.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics offers guidance on stewardship and professionalism.

Advances in CEA methodology might integrate equity at the cost of transparency.

Closed formularies can be justified when they enable spending on other socially valuable aims, but they can single out poor patients.

Ethics questions arise about the usefulness of a system that pegs Medicaid drug spending to net prices negotiated by others in the market.

This graphic narrative considers the shortage of normal saline in US health care organizations after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017.

Life extension requires careful consideration of resource scarcity, justice, and what, if anything, is intrinsic to the experiences we define as human.