Assessing and adequately documenting a patient’s decision-making capacity is a responsibility and skill required of all EMS personnel.

Dr Casey Patrick joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “According to Which Criteria Should a Return EMS Trip of Long Duration and Distance Be Deemed Ethically Justifiable?”

This article explains how some investment practices of private equity firms generate profit by taking advantage of inequitably underserved patients in the US health care system. 

This commentary on a case considers how clinicians can help nonbinary patients minimize potential harms of psychedelics.

Dr Katherin M. Duthie joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Kathryn A. Dong: “How Should Risks and Benefits of Short-Acting Opioids Be Evaluated in the Care of Inpatients With OUD?”

Some US localities are trying interventions modeled on international approaches to decriminalization.

Becoming callous, bitter, or resentful are harms we can suffer when grieving losses, especially at epidemic scale.

Dr Kelly Gillespie joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Taleed El-Sabawi: “When Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Gets Disrupted by Extra-Clinical Variables, How Should Clinicians Respond?”

Evidence of harm reduction interventions’ morbidity and mortality benefits is abundant and of high quality.

Reconsider regulatory and clinical frameworks for prescribing long-term opioid therapy for pain and prescribing opioids to treat OUD.