Designation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as a medically underserved population would not solve problems of access to care.

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

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

Physicians must resist judging the quality of life of their patients with Down syndrome and learn to listen and see them as individual personalities.

If the safe-and-effective standard for judging devices’ potential as therapy or enhancement is inadequate, one might wonder whether BCI regulation should be overseen by the FDA.

Dr Charles Binkley joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Michael Politz and Dr Brian Green: "Who, If Not the FDA, Should Regulate Implantable Brain-Computer Interface Devices?"

Farmworkers can become ill due to toxic exposure in their work environments. Recommending specific restrictions, educating patients on protection strategies, and partnering with agribusiness owners and allied health workers can drive development of alternatives to agricultural practices with health risks.

Professional society guidelines can be used to set standards for clinical practice instead of government. This approach could help if federal or state policymakers view discarding embryos as ethically equivalent to abortion.

Workplace wellness programs contribute to the wellness movement by enlisting nontraditional health partners and influencing social determinants of health.

Some physicians who value collective bargaining remain concerned that patient services could suffer, but unionization can be driven by a focus on improving care.