This article interrogates a common model of health professions education and suggests how to augment it with critical rigor.

This visual abstract is based on an article from the February 2020 issue of the journal.

This collection of drawings considers complex ethical, public health, and sociopolitical dimensions of firearm injuries.

Teaching and learning patient advocacy in academic health centers requires critical engagement with social, political, historical, and cultural conceptions of racial difference.

Turfing is a colloquialism that refers to what clinicians do to patients whose needs do not fit neatly and tidily into typical clinical placement protocols.

Technology-dependent inpatients are commonly turfed, either between general services or from subspecialty to general services.

Stopping turfing starts with clinicians and administrators having candid discussions about where and in whose care patients belong.

Safe discharge planning and execution require linkage to follow-up, patient engagement, and multidisciplinary teamwork.

Through the lens of metaphor and the arts, this article aims to illuminate how persons who are ill tarry through uncertainty to receive care.

Constraints on hospitalists and surgeons and restricted orthopedic admission criteria can exacerbate patients’ distress that comes from clinicians’ disagreements.