Extracorporeal Life Support Organization guidelines emphasize proportionality and benefit/risk analyses in decision making.

Linda’s story suggests ways to take better care of terminally and chronically ill patients at home by listening in different ways.

When evaluating a 10-year-old with leukemia and chemo-induced heart failure for VAD placement, a team considers what to do.

Palliation goals should inform MCS therapy duration, symptom management, and advance care planning and facilitate communication.

When an unproven intervention is a nanodrug, a physician’s role is especially difficult due to possibilities of unprecedented harms.

A form of aripiprazole places unique ethical and clinical demands on mental health professionals.

Ethical stakes include a psychiatrist’s care management responsibilities and burdens borne by family members over the course of the patient’s care.

Many medical schools are associated with a free clinic. Students who speak and learn Spanish can help fill this gap.

Using emergency departments as revenue streams could violate ethical and legal standards about hospitals’ roles in communities.

Entrainment can distract from pain and offer a means of witnessing important health care experiences.