This article examines use of the US Food and Drug Administration’s expanded access pathway to permit cardiac xenotransplants.

Dr Dinushika Mohottige and Karina Albistegui Adler join Ethics Talk to discuss their article, coauthored with Allison Charney and Dr Lilia Cervantes: “What Should Clinicians in Organizations Without Established MLP Programs Do When Their Patients Need Lawyers to Meet Their Health Needs?”

Undocumented people in the US face legal and structural barriers to health care services, including for kidney failure.

This article discusses fiduciary obligations transplant programs might have to patients with B cenocepacia.

This commentary considers how clinician-governors should respond to how Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scores are applied.

Isabelle M. Mikell joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Courtney L. Savage Hoggard and Dr Harald Schmidt: "What Should Be Roles of Federal Clinician Governors in Motivating Equity in Locally Coordinated Triage Protocols?"

Physicians must respond with care to all patients’ health needs, even those demanding complex, expensive interventions.

Dr Kristen N. Pallok joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr David A. Ansell: “Should Clinicians Be Activists?”

The DDR requires organ donors to be dead according to legal criteria prior to organ removal, and it’s rooted in fears of civil and criminal liability.

Current policy requires separate informed consent for some Public Health Service increased-risk donors, and this can make shared decision making harder.