End-stage heart failure patients can experience depression along with their chronic illness. Multidisciplinary responses are critical.

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

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

CPR has become default treatment for all patients in cardiac arrest. The history of how this happened demonstrates the power of CPT coding.

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

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

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.

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.