Introduction to the April 2017 issue on moral psychology and “difficult” clinician-patient relationships.

Narrative medicine—particularly, writing 55-word stories—can be used to teach medical students self-reflection, ethical awareness, and resilience.

Reading illness narratives as part of cultural competency training can enhance medical students’ awareness of contexts, including structural inequities.

Access to language services is required when caring for patients with limited English proficiency.

Giving undocumented immigrants and those with DACA status (DREAMers) access to health care and medical education enables them to contribute to these systems.

Expectations implicit in medical school funding and professional socialization lead underrepresented minorities to work with underserved populations.

Students and residents might not fully use available interpreter services due to time pressures and a lack of incentives from supervisors.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinions related to language and hierarchy in medicine.

Follow simple rules, such as checking whether patients comprehend what they’ve been told, to help patients overcome barriers posed by clinical jargon.

Corrections were made to the article entitled “The Case of Dr. Oz: Ethics, Evidence, and Does Professional Self-Regulation Work?” published in the February 2017 issue, 19(2), of the AMA Journal of Ethics.