January: “Surrogate Decision Making for Unrepresented Patients”
February: “The Shared Decision-Making Continuum”
March: “Intersectionality in Clinical Medicine”
April: “Pediatric Authenticity”
May: “The Abusive Patient: Where Do You Draw the Line?”
January: “When Decision-Makers Exclude Trainees from Patient Care”
February: “The Allegedly Abusive Surrogate"
March: “Shared Decision-Making and Health-Undermining Goals”
April:“COVID Human Challenge Trials: Ethical Considerations”
May: “Addressing Pediatric Suffering”
June: “Difficult Discharge Decisions”
October: “Moral Distress”
November: “Requests for Nondisclosure”
December: “Pediatric Participation in Decision Making”
January: “Medical Futility: A Closer Look”
February: “Health- Promoting Nudges”
March: “Artificial Intelligence in Medicine”
October: “When is a patient represented?”
November: “Advance Directives and Dementia”
December: “Real MD vs. WebMD: The Ethical Challenges of Patient SelfEducation”
January: “Codes of Ethics - Use and Misuse”
February: "Making Decisions for Others"
March: "In Search of Safe Discharges"
May: "Addressing Ethical Conflict by Understanding Moral Obligations & Communities"
June: "Disability and Quality of Life"
September: "Decision-Making Capacity"
October: "Ethics Issues in Caring for Undocumented Patients"
November: "Should We Move From Patient-Centered Care to Patient and Professional Centered Care"
December: “Contracts in the Provider-Patient Relationship”
January: “Abusive Patients – How Much is too Much?”
February: “The Downside of Being Social: When Boundaries Matter”
April: “Healthcare Practitioner Burnout & Suicide: The Problem & Some Interventions”
June: “Caring for the Homeless Among Us – A Challenge for Healthcare Providers in LA”
September: “From Patient Waste to Research Samples”
October: “Code Status - 'Erring' on the Side of Life"
November: “Concerns with Electronic Medical Records"
December: "Perspectives on Non-Adherence"
September: "The Ethical Challenges of Compassionate Use Programs for Experimental Drugs"
October: "Do Doctors and Nurses Have a Duty to Rescue?"
January: "Do Physicians have Responsibility to Provide Recommendations Regarding Goals of Care to Surrogates of Dying Patients?"
February: "Physician-assisted Death"
March: "Ethics of Deactivating Cardiac Devices"
May: "Ethics of Patients Recording Clinical Encounters"
June: "Toward Better ICU use at the End of Life"
July: "Witness to Suffering: The Ethical Importance of Hearing Others’ Stories"
September: "The Goals of Ethics Consultation: Rejecting the Role of Ethics Police"
January: "Concept of Vulnerability"
February: "Is Suffering the Enemy?"
March: "Personal Responsibility and Healthcare Rationing"
April: "Medical Futility in the Pediatric ICU"
June: "Professional Boundaries: physicians who give money to patients"
September: "Physicians as Surrogates for Unrepresented Patients"
October: "Illness and Empathy"
November: "Physician-Family-Child Relationship"
October: "Obligations of Surgeons to Noncompliant Patients"
November: "Ethics of Responding to Ebola"
December: "Altruism, Gift Giving, and Reciprocity in Organ Donation"