Dr Travis Reider discusses his own experiences with opioids and the ethical challenges of "legacy patients," and Dr Stephanie Zaza, president of the American College of Preventive Medicine, discusses the future of opioid research priorities.

Kelly Leonard, executive director of insights and applied improvisation at The Second City Works, relates how improvisation can help clinicians build relationships with patients and improve their outcomes.

Lucas Livingston joins us for a special edition of Ethics Talk to discuss the loneliness epidemic exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and how museum accessibility promotes healthy aging and lifelong learning for us all.

Dr john powell joins us for this special edition of Ethics Talk to discuss how a lens of "othering and belonging" can help us navigate our obligations to and relationships with each other, especially during this COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr James Van Arsdall shares his experience of sitting for a portrait after his treatment for oral cancer and Dr Mark Gilbert describes how he came to do portraiture in clinical settings.

Mental illnesses can affect some patients' capacity to make decisions. Even so, many of these patients retain insight and should be invited to engage in shared decision making about their health care. Dr Laura Guidry-Grimes joins us to discuss how clinicians can assess whether and which decisions can be shared with people experiencing mental illness.

Alice Wong and Dr Joseph Stramondo join us on this special episode of Ethics Talk to discuss how perspectives from the disability community can help us think more powerfully about quality of life, resource allocation, and other ethical challenges arising in pandemics.

In this special edition of Ethics Talk, Dr Uché Blackstock joins us to discuss COVID-19 morbidity and mortality outcomes inequity by race, and what needs to change now and post-pandemic.

In this episode of Ethics Talk, surgeon Dr Sara Scarlet and anesthesiologist Dr Patricia Doerr discuss their perspectives on surgeon-anesthesiologist relationships.

In this special edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor-in-chief, Dr Audiey Kao, discusses the ethical challenges, including resource scarcity and medical worker obligations, that arise during pandemics with public health expert Dr Matthew Wynia.