Avoiding harm requires that clinicians not overly rely on assumptions about “normal” embodiment.

One patient’s experience of life-encompassing iatrogenic harm from being institutionalized emphasizes Italy’s comparative success, relative to the United States, in recovering from decades of deinstitutionalization policy.

“Complicit” investigates cultures’ limitations in identifying and investigating their own blind spots.

Discussing quality improvement is routine in morbidity and mortality conferences, but little attention is paid to iatrogenic harms of structural racism in health professions education.

Neglected examples of iatrogenic harm involve persons with severe mental illness who seek inpatient care.

In American culture, blood, sweat, and tears mantras of sports remind athletes that they are expected to perform past their breaking points. 

Inequitable care and outcomes experienced by persons with mental illness have long been exacerbated by stigma expressed by clinicians.

Clinicians’ racial biases undermine the quality of Black persons’ health care experiences and pave a reliable path to health care-induced harm.

Underrecognition and lack of awareness about how to help patients with painful menstruation constitute injustice and a health care harm.

“Contraception Options” considers the general social and cultural expectation and norm that women’s bodies should be the sites of contraception.