Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law.

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

Although organ donation conflicts with self-interest, because donation is vital to the community, interventions to increase it are ethically justified.

Judgmentalism applied to patients from poor and marginalized communities exacerbates health inequity and illuminates the importance of contextualizing a patient’s care.

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

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