Vaccination rates among adolescents and young adults, for whom the risk of infection is greatest, remain lower than was true for other vaccines in their first years. And vaccination rates among males is extremely low.

Interprofessional collaboration is crucial to reduce overincarceration of people with severe mental illness.

Individualistic approaches to the collective problem of climate change are ethically inadequate. 

Constraints on hospitalists and surgeons and restricted orthopedic admission criteria can exacerbate patients’ distress that comes from clinicians’ disagreements.

Technology-dependent inpatients are commonly turfed, either between general services or from subspecialty to general services.

This article summarizes AMA Code of Medical Ethics' guidance about patient transfer practices and discharge planning.

The teach-to-goal method should be used to assess comprehension of incarcerated patients and other vulnerable groups during the informed consent process.

How to treat a patient with a dissociative identity disorder and how to manage a threat made by one of the patient's personalities.

Specific advocate guidelines are needed for the protection of children in state custody who are potential research subjects in trials that would expose them to greater-than-minimal risk but also hold the prospect of direct benefit.

Physicians have a responsibility to assess elderly patients for conditions that could affect their ability to drive safely and to be familiar with state laws that govern physician duty to report impaired drivers.