Physicians’ primary responsibility is to promote patients’ well-being, which includes not causing financial harm.

Insurers’ decisions about which services to cover are often based on economic models that are seemingly objective but neglect factors affecting people who are economically disadvantaged.

Modeling how technology assessment fits into cost-effectiveness frameworks can broaden the range of options for improving health equity.

Patients writing daily journal briefs about work-related activities and pain can help clinicians help them.

Pharmaceuticals make symptoms and biological drug targets more visible but can render individual and community suffering less visible.

While men are diagnosed with depression at half the rate of women, they die by suicide 3 to 4 times as frequently.

Kim Christiansen discusses her experiences managing limited mobility and chronic pain from a partial spinal cord injury and Dr Natalie Hoff describes good physical therapy care for patients with chronic migraine headaches.

Public and self-stigma negatively influence patients’ quality of life, employment, and housing opportunities.

Fostering transgender patients’ sense of agency should be a clinical and ethical priority.

Some clinicians cite absence of long-term data to justify not fully deferring surgery for children with DSD, and legal restrictions of early procedures are also at play.