Women’s health garners great sociopolitical attention in the US, engendering comments by politicians, legislative actions, and policymaking by employers and insurers.

Lack of protections for egg donors can result in physician conflicts of interest, inadequate informed consent processes, and subpar donor care.

Industrialized nations could benefit from strategies emerging in developing nations such as respectful collaboration between traditional out-of-hospital birthing practices and maternity units in partnering hospitals.

A patient’s request for a treatment does not establish that treatment as medically reasonable according to evidence-based deliberative clinical judgment.

An attempt to investigate correlations between race, attitudes, and contraceptive use did not find meaningful associations between race and attitudes about birth control or pregnancy that could influence contraceptive choice.

The use of robots in surgery raises ethical questions regarding training, reporting standards, and financial conflicts of interest.

Respect for informed, autonomous decision making demands that useful, if anxiety-provoking, information about age-related decline in fertility not be withheld from women.

Unless we build bridges between our clinical work with patients and the public health mission that Virchow prescribed for us, we are doomed to futility in our efforts to help our patients.

The AMA Code of Ethics' opinion on physician advocacy.

Task-based small-group sessions may be more effective for teaching medical students concepts such as justice, resource allocation, and professionalism.