Teams are smartest when everyone feels free to speak up and function best when leadership is inclusive and patient-focused.

Patient safety is a medical ethics issue that must be addressed through health care teams’ open communication as well as through time-outs and checklists.

The separation of dental and medical care is a medical ethics issue because it negatively impacts vulnerable populations who lack access to dental care.

The student-faculty run Crimson Care Collaborative is a model of team-based patient care that is nonhierarchical and interprofessional.

A promising approach for medical ethics education is interprofessional, clinical ethics problem-based learning.

Massachusetts legislation limiting supply of first-time opioid prescriptions creates opportunity for interprofessional collaboration on drug policy.

Effective interprofessional collaboration and patient care require understanding team members’ roles and responsibilities and clear communication.

Pathologists should work cooperatively with clinicians and provide guidance about appropriate testing to uphold the medical ethics principle of justice.

An emerging medical ethics issue is whether to delay posting pathology reports to electronic health records (EHR) to allow clinicians time to follow up.

Because physicians view autopsies differently than families of the deceased, informed consent rather than permission should be obtained for autopsies.