Skilled interactions in health care are those in which clinicians focus on making patients feel seen and heard and that their needs are important and can be met.

Dr Sana Loue joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Jared Ontko and Timothy Nicholas: “Government Obligations and the Negative Right to a Healthy Urban Environment.”

This commentary on a case considers how clinicians can help nonbinary patients minimize potential harms of psychedelics.

Grayson Holt joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Johanna Glaser: “Why Is Hospice One of the Few Health Care Environments Structured for Peace?”

What might be learned about undervaluing chaplaincy expertise, peace, and quiet in everyday operations of professional caregiving?

Dr Christy A. Rentmeester joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Roles of Quiet in Health Care Organizations.”

Close listening is a teachable skill set in which clinicians focus sensory attention on a patient and cultivate space before speaking.

Timothy Nicholas joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Lisa Rainsong and Erin Gentry Lamb: “Using Music to Teach Health Professions Students to Listen Closely and Promote Peace.”

In hospice settings, structures and spaces of caregiving must promote peace. How could peace design be applied to more health care settings?

Neuroscientist Dr Daniel J. Levitin and therapeutic musician Judy Friesem join Ethics Talk to discuss how music affects the brain and what role music can have in peace-making in clinical settings.