AMA Journal of Ethics^®

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.

Drs Michael Young, Robert Regenhardt, and Leonard Sokol join Ethics Talk to discuss their article, coauthored with Dr Thabele Leslie-Mazwi: "When Should Neuroendovascular Care for Patients With Acute Stroke Be Palliative?"

No single person should make decisions about for whom or according to which criteria palliative surgery is clinically and ethically appropriate.

Seeming incongruity between surgery and palliation reiterates patients’ needs for clinicians to be able to identify when and how they should coexist.

Calls to expand palliative care education have been explicit since the 1990s, but palliative care training in surgery remains too narrowly focused on end of life.

When surgical intervention is most appropriate, success should be defined by how well a surgical intervention aligns with a patient’s goals.

Dr Myrick C. Shinall, Jr joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “Aren’t Surgery and Palliative Care Kind of Opposites?”

Guidance about sedation to unconsciousness and medically ineffective interventions can be applied to surgical palliation.