Affect labeling during painful bias incidents helps caregivers identify their duties to patients while enabling their own healing.

Patient-physician concordance is a matter of degree. In certain circumstances, greater concordance can motivate important goals of medicine.

AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor James Aluri, a third-year medical student at Johns Hopkins University, interviewed Dr. Autumn Fiester, PhD, about strategies for defusing “difficult” patient-clinician relationships.

Although sharing health records with psychiatric patients may cause harm, clinicians also must consider beneficence and autonomy in making this decision.

After the infant’s birth, the neonatologist’s first duty is to his or her patient—the newly born infant. If clinical circumstances are different than anticipated, the physician must first consider the best interests of the baby.

Making best use of information patients bring to the clinical encounter from the internet.

Compassion for vulnerable patients is essential to the art of medicine, which has not advanced with the science of medicine.

How to treat a patient with a dissociative identity disorder and how to manage a threat made by one of the patient's personalities.

An examination of some of the factors that can weaken the therapeutic nature of the patient-physician relationship and how a physician can resolve them in the patient's best interest.