Respecting patient autonomy while seeking to understand patients’ unique perspectives can strengthen patient-surgeon relationships.

Pediatricians have obligations to find causes of children’s stress and respond with care to their clinical and social vulnerabilities.

Clinicians must express humility, understand local culture, collaborate, and develop an insider’s perspective on past and present life.

Deception’s justifiability might depend on clinicians’ commitment to solidarity and awareness of social determinants of patients’ vulnerability to HIV infection.

Patient-centered care means offering potentially beneficial interventions while avoiding retraumatizing a patient.

Heightened privacy and confidentiality stakes generate unique anonymity and nondisclosure policies and practices for HIV.

For an adolescent patient with extreme anorexia nervosa, steps for expressing compassion during a force intervention need to be clear.

Restraint can facilitate freedom for patients with traumatic brain injuries under some conditions.

Covert medication administration might be as forceful as physical or chemical restraint for patients lacking insight.

Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization.