A surgeon’s duty is to identify goals of care, including those about quality of life, from a patient’s perspective and to consider how to achieve them.

Heightened caution, improved physician and patient communication, and equitable access are key priorities.

Lack of training and lack of knowledge can adversely influence a patient’s clinical outcomes.

Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma and breast implant illness have prompted recalls of implants.

Financial relationships are common, and ethical questions rightly emerge about how conflicts of interest compromise investigators’ approaches to research.

Justification for using WTP values and QALYs lies in incorporating preferences of those whose treatment could be affected.

Physicians’ primary responsibility is to promote patients’ well-being, which includes not causing financial harm.

Hyperfocus on measurability can result in evidentiary overreliance and undervaluation of patients’ experience narratives.

Patients’ perceptions of how much input they have in making health decisions influence therapeutic alliance and outcomes.

Patients writing daily journal briefs about work-related activities and pain can help clinicians help them.