For an adolescent patient with extreme anorexia nervosa, steps for expressing compassion during a force intervention need to be clear.

Clinicians with obligations to patients and to organizations often assess patients in law enforcement for both therapeutic and nontherapeutic purposes.

Fostering transgender patients’ sense of agency should be a clinical and ethical priority.

This charcoal gesture drawing, inspired by a mid-adolescent nonbinary patient, investigates a caregiver’s and patient’s journey from despair to hope.

While men are diagnosed with depression at half the rate of women, they die by suicide 3 to 4 times as frequently.

Patients leaving against medical advice draw attention to intersections of tort law, federal and state regulations, and clinical ethics.

Authors respond to “How Should Physicians Care for Dying Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis?” by arguing that patients’ motives for accessing death with dignity laws should be thoroughly explored and that temporarily limiting patient autonomy can promote well-being at the end of life.

Responding to “Added Points of Concern about Caring for Dying Patients,” authors argue that physicians’ refusal to prescribe lethal drugs in accordance with states’ death with dignity laws could damage patient-physician relationships and harm patients.