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.

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

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

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

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

Physicians need to exhaust every possible alternative to bring about political changes before resorting to breaking the law as an act of civil disobedience.

Physicians need to exhaust every possible alternative to bring about political changes before resorting to breaking the law as an act of civil disobedience.

By supporting sustainability initiatives based on current, accurate, and unbiased evidence, physicians can fulfill their obligation to protect health.

A 15-year-old advance directive made when the patient was in much better health and not updated can bring more confusion than clarity to the decision-making process.