This image aims to promote reflection about patients’ feelings of sadness, despair, helplessness, and uncertainty upon being diagnosed.

Ethical and practical problems with preference modeling can undermine how reliably predictors can be used in high-stakes decisions.

The Code offers guidance about delivering a diagnosis and promoting patients’ best interests when assigning names to patients’ conditions.

Reliance on disclosure rather than understanding has prompted shared decision making and represents an important cultural change in clinical practice.

Although the stigma of the psychosis risk label can cause harm, the label can also confer benefit and provides an explanatory framework for symptoms.

A patient’s story represents an ethical dilemma of cancer screening: it can save lives but generates diagnostic morbidity and incurs costs.

Humor studies have traditionally lived in the rather unfunny world of philosophy departments. Thankfully, psychologists and neuroscientists study mechanisms of humor and laughter, too.

A recent model categorizes comic styles that can help us examine whether and when humor is a virtue in health care professionalism.

What are insurance, contract, and criminal law implications of detecting Alzheimer’s disease early?