The adverse health effects of climate change should be the focus of physician advocacy efforts and of conversations between physicians and their patients.

As a matter of medical ethics, physicians must address the health care needs of and be advocates for family caregivers of their patients with dementia.

Clinicians can be patient advocates, resource stewards, and promote good financial choices about care.

Presenting all, including expensive, options to all patients means advocating not only for individual patients, but also for a just health care system.

Clinicians’ disclosure of their immigration status could help or undermine patient-clinician relationships. Which factors matter most?

Physicians should find a way to balance their responsibility to care for individual patients with their desire to serve as public policy advocates so that they do not become overwhelmed in handling both roles.

Physicians should find a way to balance their responsibility to care for individual patients with their desire to serve as public policy advocates so that they do not become overwhelmed in handling both roles.

Equitable transitions of care for incarcerated patients returning to the community will require physician advocacy and systems-level change.

Fictional narrative of a physician who decides to leave the state for safety with his pregnant wife and son when a flu epidemic breaks out.

Expressing political views in a professional setting can be detrimental to the patient-physician relationship.