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A “simplicity strategy” suggests expressing respect for persons and empathy and models inclusive group inquiry, epistemic humility, and justice.

Concrete protocols for supporting trainees include convening team meetings, tracking bias incidents, collecting data, and initiating protective changes in culture.

This issue considers the ethical complexities of responding to patients’ unjust bias in individual patient encounters and of responding to patients’ requests for certain types of patient-clinician concordance.

When patients express overt racism, caregivers need to feel safe and supported. The scope of organizations’ responsibilities to make that happen needs to be clearly defined.

How should evidence be used to interpret and inform whether to accommodate patients’ requests for clinicians with specific traits?

Patient bias towards clinicians and employees in health care is common, but policy to address bias and support staff is relatively limited.

How should physicians researching life-sustaining technologies consider their duties to enrolled subjects?

When evaluating a 10-year-old with leukemia and chemo-induced heart failure for VAD placement, a team considers what to do.

When weighing potential benefits of technological advancement against risks of harm, clinicians should prioritize duties to patients.

Devices alter heart failure etiology, and specialists must navigate more ethical complexity than ever. How should curricula evolve to help them respond?