Force feeding, unnecessary x-rays, misusing health information, and discharging unstable patients are classic dual-loyalty dilemmas reminiscent of the Holocaust.

Women with disabilities may be prevented access to reproductive medicine due to discrimination and mistaken assumptions about disabled people.

Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization.

Covert medication administration might be as forceful as physical or chemical restraint for patients lacking insight.

Parens patriae, the state as parent, can be enacted during forced clinical interventions.

This article considers force use in clinical settings after a triggering event—a behavioral or medical crisis—and considers how it should be implemented.