US attitudes toward aging drive patient demands for elective medical and surgical services. Ethical physicians must make sure patients have realistic expectations.

Medical malpractice pits the legal system's ethics of client advocacy against the medical profession's ethics of patient advocacy. Fear of liability may lead to defensive medicine, an aberration of both professions' intent.

Catholic medical school education and the Catholic health care systems in the U.S. emphasize the moral growth of the physician and respect for the body, mind and spirit of patients.

Physicians do not have to give therapies or perform procedures that they judge to be futile and Catholic patients have the moral right to determine what is extraordinary or ordinary care.

An exploration of whether artificial nutrition and hydration is judged to be extraordinary care in Catholic health care ethics.

The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care are the basis of Catholic health care practices.

A response to a March 2007 Virtual Mentor clinical pearl about the diagnoses made on the television show House.

A review of Clark's article about the permissibility, under Roman Catholic moral theology, of using methotrexate in ectopic pregnancies.

The Catholic Church demonstrates a preferential option for the poor not only by providing charity but also by demanding justice for the poor.

The rule of double effect can help Catholic institutions determine whether terminal sedation is ever morally acceptable.