AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Dr Helen Stanton Chapple joins Ethics Talk to talk about teaching health professions students and trainees about acknowledging and realizing dying in a healthy way.

Dr Cynthia Geppert joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Is There a Case for Palliative Care Addiction Psychiatry?”

Futility can function as a moral counterweight to a duty to treat, helping clinicians  find balance between over- and undertreatment. 

This commentary on a case considers moral reasons to adopt a palliative approach to the care of some psychiatric patients.

Dr Amy Johnson joins Ethics Talk to discuss clinical end-of-life skills that psychiatrists need to have to care well for patients with terminal psychiatric illnesses.

Dr Anna L. Westermair joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Manuel Trachsel: “Moral Intuitions About Futility as Prompts for Evaluating Goals in Mental Health Care.”

Palliative psychiatry can facilitate compassionate resolution of ethical conflicts in end-of-life care decision making with persons with substance use disorders.  

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

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

For some patients whose survival is extended by disease-modifying interventions, little guidance about clinical and ethical complexities exist.