Caring for severe burn injuries in low- and middle-income countries requires making decisions about resource allocation given particular contextual factors.

Safe discharge planning and execution require linkage to follow-up, patient engagement, and multidisciplinary teamwork.

Decisions about where and to whose professional stewardship patients are admitted are influenced by federal policies of which physicians might not be aware.

If a medical decision about high-value care involves a conflict between the principles of beneficence and justice, an explicit analysis of the individual case is necessary to ensure that the interests of both the patient and society are served.

Physician employment adds a practice management stakeholder to the patient-physician encounter, a stakeholder whose financial interests differ from those of physicians in solo or group practice.

What impact will a concentrated effort to reduce the cost of inpatient hospital care have on the training of the next generations of clinicians?

Publicizing physician ordering information as a way of peer-pressuring hospital employees into cutting costs is likely to have unintended consequences.