Restraint can facilitate freedom for patients with traumatic brain injuries under some conditions.

Covert medication administration might be as forceful as physical or chemical restraint for patients lacking insight.

Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization.

Injustice is endemic to IHS operations when its stewards are forced to defer payment for patients’ nonemergent care.

Patients’ cultural, religious, and social norms deserve respect, but some decisions’ effects on patients’ outcomes can be unjust and ethically troubling.

Limited language proficiency is a driver of health inequity and exacerbates other social determinants of health.

Judgmentalism applied to patients from poor and marginalized communities exacerbates health inequity and illuminates the importance of contextualizing a patient’s care.

Physicians and pharmacists play key roles in addressing social determinants of health and health inequity.

Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity.

Perils of physicians intentionally harming individuals in errant attempts to strengthen a community have been illuminated by the Holocaust.