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

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

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 have a right to conscientiously object to procedures and therapies that they find to be morally objectionable.

The principle of double effect and proportionate reason can be a useful way of assessing actions as moral or immoral.

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

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

This commentary examines the consequences of a medical student’s dishonesty during clinical rounds when she lacked the lab results the attending physician asked her for.

Suggests to medical students what forms of self-disclosure are acceptable during clinical encounters and when self-disclosure might be interpreted by patients as taking attention away from them.

Suggests to medical students what forms of self-disclosure are acceptable during clinical encounters and when self-disclosure might be interpreted by patients as taking attention away from them.