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

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

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

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

When responding to an ad for a job caring for patient-detainees along the US southern border, applicants should anticipate the need to navigate dual loyalties.

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

Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria.

Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law.

Lack of ethical, legal, and clinical consensus about best practice sometimes combines with a poor clinical evidence base.

Patients leaving against medical advice draw attention to intersections of tort law, federal and state regulations, and clinical ethics.