Often, disease and medical treatment require patients to take stock of what they value, what they want from their care, and what they hope to achieve.

Some patients’ stories can be hard to tell and hard to listen to, especially in pressured, time-pinched clinical environments.

Shared decision making honors patient autonomy, particularly for preference-sensitive care decisions and even when patients have impaired decision-making capacity.

Given organ scarcity, transplantation programs state that patient promises of compliance cannot be taken at face value, excluding candidates who are deemed untrustworthy.

The term "domestic global health" raises ethical attention to language.

There is great need for good teaching about how to have culturally appropriate conversations among clinicians, patients, and other stakeholders.

Shared decision making is practically difficult to implement in mental health practice but remains an ethical ideal for motivating therapeutic capacity.

Shared decision making is complex with patients who are adolescents, whose relational autonomy is still emerging.

In 2010, artist Shengxun Lin created Hold Me, a cast resin replica of her own hand as a comfort object and stress reliever. This work continues that practical design theme with a focus on how use and comfort augment aesthetics.

Shared decision making in research informed consent conversations is complex due to diverse and potentially divergent interests of investigators and patient-subjects.