Many devices in current use were marketed before manufacturers were required to demonstrate safety and effectiveness.

Information different patients need or want about cybersecurity risk varies, so communicating clearly is always key.

Allocating resources for interventions requires consensus among stakeholders with a plurality of perspectives about how to weigh antimicrobial stewardship interventions’ risks and benefits.

Invisibility of racial inequity and gender inclusion in clinical research means key features of disease etiology and symptom presentation are unaccounted for.

Restraint can facilitate freedom for patients with traumatic brain injuries under some conditions.

For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life.

Psychiatric emergencies, coping stress reactions, and iatrogenic injuries are not responded to with the same vigor as acute medical decompensation. That needs to change.

Ethical dimensions of risk management are illuminated in AMA Code content on discharge planning.

Dr John Banja joins us to discuss the promises and perils of artificial intelligence in health care applications, including potential “megarisks” posed by AI tools themselves.

Framing risk management goals as patient centered and evidence based helps align them with goals of ethics.