Clinical practice has evolved with diversification of health care organizations, each of which plays key roles in acquiring and mobilizing resources in the sector.

Corporatization in health care has complicated clinicians’ and organizations’ efforts to balance interests of individual patients against an organization’s bottom line.

Some physicians who value collective bargaining remain concerned that patient services could suffer, but unionization can be driven by a focus on improving care.

Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused.

Racism against Asians and Asian Americans related to COVID-19 contagion fear is irrational, as threat of influenza is far more real. Exacerbated by abundant poor health information, viral xenophobia follows a history of de jure Asian exclusion.

This article considers one student’s experience after coming out as nonbinary and voicing that their pronouns are they/them.

Upcoding and misrepresenting clinical information constitute fraud, cost a lot, and can result in patient harm and unnecessary procedures and prescriptions.

As larger organizations become more influential in the health care sector, the Code can help physicians navigate those organizations’ influence on their practices.

IRBs must report human subject research protocol deviations and university leadership might also need to motivate compliance with federal regulations.

Even disclosed conflicts of interest can be dangerous in health care settings, but disclosure might not be the panacea many seem to take it to be.