1. Informed Consent: Pediatric Patients, Adolescents, and Emancipated Minors -- 2. Preoperative Testing: Ethical Challenges, Evidence-Based Medicine and Informed Consent -- 3. Informed Consent and the Disclosure of Surgeon Experience -- 4. Perioperative Considerations of Do Not Resuscitate and Do Not Intubate Orders in Adult Patients -- 5. Pediatric Patients: Do Not Resuscitate Decisions -- 6. Ethical Care of the Children of Jehovah's Witnesses -- 7. Fatigue and the Care of Patients -- 8. Conscientious Objection -- 9. Ethical Implications of Drug Shortages -- 10. Ethical Challenges in High-Risk Innovative Surgery -- 11. Professionalism in the Operating Room -- 12. Honesty in the Perioperative Setting: Error and Communication -- 13. Futility and the Care of the Perioperative Patient -- 14. End-of-Life Issues: Management of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices -- 15. End-of-Life Issues: Spirituality -- 16. Ethics in Research and Publication -- 17. Ethics and Evidence Regarding Animal Subjects Research: Splitting Hares- or Swallowing Camels?.