When prescribing antibiotics, physicians should weigh individual benefit against both environmental and community harms.

Elder self-neglect can be assessed with the Elder Self-Neglect Assessment (ESNA) and addressed by physicians’ partnering with patients to achieve common goals.

Understanding the religious background of patients and their surrogates is essential to providing patient-centered care at the end of life.

Introduction to the October 2017 issue on clean water access and the roles of clinicians.

By cultivating cultural humility, physicians can address not only stereotypes and biases but also power inequalities and community inequities.

In conducting research abroad, clinicians should treat community members with dignity and as research partners.

Seven photos taken in Flint illuminate environmental injustice, the city’s attempts to respond, and individuals’ experiences.

Physicians’ ethical obligation to ensure communities’ access to safe drinking water has roots in their expertise, social authority, and role as mediators.

Cases of elder self-neglect require physicians to balance the patient’s wish for independence and the risks of poor self-care.

Equitable transitions of care for incarcerated patients returning to the community will require physician advocacy and systems-level change.