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

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.

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