On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, pointing to the over 118,000 cases of the coronavirus illness in over 1...

We hear many stories these days about immigration. Certainly, healthcare workers see undocumented individuals in Emergency Rooms or clinics. What is t...

Health disparities and health outcomes for African Americans, is egregious… Regarding pain medication, a 2019 published article offered that the pain ...

New research findings regarding HIV status will impact how we understand and practice disclosure of HIV status of patients… specifically whether or no...

Consider someone leaving a hospital, after their care is completed at that location, to return to their home and local community. As discharge plans a...

Brain death is a fundamental ethical topic that is complex and often fraught with emotion. As ethics committees are faced with considerations involvin...

Why would the question of whether to provide food and water to a patient come up at all? One might assume it is always helpful and never harmful to of...

Goals of care is a term so common to health care professionals and yet, our guests describe significant clinical experiences in which the lack of disc...

Informed consent is one of the foundational ethical principles in health care that supports patient autonomy, or stated differently, the patients righ...

The big picture is that 115,000 men, women and children await organ transplants in the United States. Even the largest football stadium in the US coul...