Medical students’ moral distress about end-of-life cases can be reduced through ethics consultation and ethics rounds, narrative reflection, and mentoring.

Moral distress can be reduced by approaching the patient-physician relationship with empathy and humility, which foster trust and good communication.

Students’ decision making about ethical dilemmas can be supported via education, faculty development, and structures for reporting professionalism lapses.

Medical education must acknowledge the problematic use of race as a biological or epidemiological risk factor in research and the controversy over race.

Introduction to the June 2017 issue on moral distress and medicine.

Psychodynamic therapy is generally suited to treating issues arising in cancer treatment because it enables rapid development of the therapeutic alliance.

Some treatments of childhood cancer can cause infertility in adulthood. What should be the roles of physicians in helping parents decide whether, when, and what their child is told about this risk?

Physician illness narratives create a bond with patients through the shared experience of vulnerability but risk extending the physician’s own authority.

Decision-making capacity can be preserved in patients with mental illness and should be formally assessed in the context of their values and past decisions.