AMA Journal of Ethics^®

The concept of mortal time is useful for exploring how hospice care frameworks might help nonhospice clinicians find calm in practice.

Dr Helen Stanton Chapple joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: "Solidarity in Mortal Time.”

For dying patients and their loved ones to make informed decisions, physicians must share adequate information about prognoses, prospective benefits and harms of specific interventions, and costs.

Current evidence suggests how hospice and palliative care clinicians can help advocate for high-quality, end-of-life care for patients with obesity.

Legal inconsistencies and variation in end-of-life options generate disparities in care for unrepresented patients.