Redefining merit can promote meaningful inclusion and express institutional leadership in addressing social justice.

Retention, student progression, and career advancement milestones are at least as important as admissions in promoting just medical education opportunity.

Diversity standards in medical education accreditation do not guarantee diversity but stimulate schools’ activities to recruit and retain diverse students and faculty.

The Holocaust and the racial hygiene doctrine that helped rationalize it still overshadow contemporary debates about using gene editing for disease prevention.

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

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

Covert medication administration might be as forceful as physical or chemical restraint for patients lacking insight.