Michael Allen is a biology major with a minor in public health. He is a 2025-26 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. I’ve ...

Ethical principles are especially pertinent to the conduct of professionals in psychology and psychiatry. The hard work comes when principles are in conflict, and clinicians must consider what values, ...

Every year, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health organizes a Bioethics Symposium to bring together distinguished scholars from diverse backgrounds and explore topics that ...

Now, most American physicians don’t own their own practices; they work for institutions—investor-owned, non-profit, or public—as employees or contractors. Discussions of ethics in health care must ...

Given the unprecedented potential for sweeping immigration enforcement actions that may include health care settings, health care institutions have an ethical responsibility to urgently prepare. In ...

Author discusses the ethics of disclosing the cost of treatments to patients before prescribing them and weighing financial risk vs medical care. The practice of medicine requires high moral standards ...

Referring to physicians as providers reduces the patient-physician relationship to a transaction and does not recognize differences in roles, responsibilities, and training among health care ...