For dying patients and their loved ones to make informed decisions, physicians must share adequate information about prognoses, prospective benefits and harms of specific interventions, and costs.

Human health promotion and environmental protection are values that sometimes complement each other, but sometimes conflict in BCU management.

The health sector has obligations and ample opportunities to protect health by decreasing waste and motivating more system-wide sustainable clinical practices.

Restructuring health care waste management involves making existing waste audit data transparent.

Communities are not affected equally by the volume and location of US health care waste.

Reasons to actively promote the interests of health workers earning low wages are numerous and urgent.

Historical perspective on how some sites and means of professional caregiving became high or low status helps us understand trends in poor care continuity in US health care.

All health workers should be included in planning personal protective equipment access and infectious disease containment operations.

Psychiatric aides and technicians are part of direct care workforces in inpatient units who are subject to high rates of violence but earn far less than higher-status clinicians.

Algorithms use race as an epidemiological shorthand, but clinically influential historical, social, and cultural determinants of health are still sources of variability.