This photograph depicts a gateway at the Oud Sint-Janshospitaal, a medieval Flemish hospital.

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

Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused.

Health workers care for COVID-19 patients, just as St Roch tended to bubonic plague victims during the Renaissance. Three artworks relate Roch’s story and apply key insights to the 2020 pandemic.

CHWs’ work underscores need for clinicians and organizations to respond to deeply entrenched, long-standing patterns of oppression in ways that draw upon lived experience.

Wandy D. Hernandez-Gordon joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Why Community Health Workers’ Roles in Latinx Communities Are Essential.”

When clinicians engage surrogates in video calls showing the patient’s body, several competing ethical questions must be considered.

Tension between realistic goals and unrealistic views about how to achieve them is compounded when patients are eager to revise a prior surgeon’s gender-affirming procedure.

Healthist views about body shape and weight are oppressive and lead to pernicious harms, especially to members of vulnerable groups.