A nudge is an intervention designed to prompt a person to “voluntarily” make a choice intended by those who altered an environment or situation to yield that choice.

Nudges can improve patient outcomes, but decisions need to be made about where they fit in the flow of health service delivery.

This comic conveys the absurdity of overreliance on symptom measures and excessive testing in contemporary clinical decision making and health care practice.

Consensus about clinicians’ roles in civic engagement is lacking, but there is no denying that public policy and participation in democracy affects the health and well-being of patients and communities.

Behavioral psychology considers connections between our thinking and reasoning tendencies and how we respond to environmental stimuli. Behavioral architecture applies what we know about those responses to influence our actions.

Patients can now easily view their health records, so clinicians must consider a reader’s interpretation of how they convey sensitive personal health information. What might this mean for ethics consultants?

This photograph depicts a gateway at the Oud Sint-Janshospitaal, a medieval Flemish hospital.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres' and Gregg Bordowitz’s works express their experiences of living through a pandemic and subsequent social change and draw out key human rights themes.

Like all humans, health professionals are subject to cognitive biases that can render diagnoses and treatment decisions vulnerable to error.

Individuals can underperform in circumstances of shared accountability. In clinical settings, this is an unintended consequence of the health care sector’s complexity fragmentation.