AMA Journal of Ethics^®

One expression of structural injustice in the United States is delivery of health care according to patients’ race and insurance status.

How should clinicians cultivate relationships with technology so it functions in solidarity with patients?

Patients experiencing homelessness and mental illness face conditions and circumstances that deserve focused ethical and clinical attention.

To improve health outcomes, clinicians must move quickly yet operate slowly enough to center empathy in practice.

These key steps are ones health sector stakeholders should take to help patients and clinicians use pricing information to inform health decision making.

For dying patients and their loved ones to make informed decisions, physicians must share adequate information about prognoses, prospective benefits and harms of specific interventions, and costs.

Practice ownership shifts to various employment models have amplified the problem of physician-employees of some US health care companies not knowing about services billed in their names.

Restructuring health care waste management involves making existing waste audit data transparent.

Communities are not affected equally by the volume and location of US health care waste.

Human health promotion and environmental protection are values that sometimes complement each other, but sometimes conflict in BCU management.