Burn care physicians must walk a fine line between providing individualized care and applying population-based quality metrics.

Wound care curricula in medical school would help address problems associated with chronic wounds and overtriage of burn injuries.

The decision-making capacity and autonomy of burn patients and medical paternalism is examined through the cases of Dax Cowart and Andrea Rubin.

An overview of Maine's pilot program to reduce the practice of defensive medicine in certain specialties by assuring legal protection for doctors who follow particular guidelines and discussion of why it was not used in malpractice litigation.

Violence reduction efforts should focus on interrupting transmission of violence and changing behaviors rather than mitigating environmental risk factors.

Pervasive and recurrent gun violence compels health care organizations to integrate violence prevention, intervention, and recidivism reduction as critical dimensions of good trauma care.

Modern surgeons are diverse, socially adept, and differ in other important ways from the stereotype of a technically gifted white male with poor bedside manner.

Goals-of-care conversations in the trauma setting are rendered complex by patient, physician, surrogate, and system-specific factors.

Trauma surgeons’ role in gun violence prevention is hampered by restrictions on funding for research with implications for public health interventions.

Introduction to the May 2018 issue on trauma surgery ethics.