About 80 percent of children in the ER for suturing preferred a woman doctor; 60 percent of their parents preferred a man, 19 percent, a woman, and 21 percent, the doctor with the most experience.

In treating children with autism, physicians should reframe the common dynamic in which the family wants medication that the doctor is withholding to focus instead on the family’s and physician’s share goal—the patient’s well-being.

By not reporting abusive faculty behavior, a student places his or her grade over the larger good of promoting human dignity.

There is evidence that children who are unaware of their life-threatening diagnoses do not experience any less distress and anxiety than those who are told, and in some cases they may actually experience more.

When most statutes about confidential treatment of adolescents were adopted, immunization against sexually transmitted infection was not anticipated, so the statutes contain no specific inclusion of such preventive measures.

Physicians should extend gender-affirming treatment to gender-nonconforming people, who experience discrimination and health disparities.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics opinions related to discrimination and disparities in health care.

This month, AMA Journal of Ethics' theme editor Cameron Waldman, a second-year medical student at Albany Medical College, interviewed Aron Janssen, MD, about how healthcare professionals can better serve their transgender patients.

Pediatricians should not opt out of caring for children of same-sex couples due to anti-gay beliefs or bias.