Organ donor potential should not be considered during active resuscitation of trauma patients, and trauma surgeons should not make organ donation requests.

US attitudes toward aging drive patient demands for elective medical and surgical services. Ethical physicians must make sure patients have realistic expectations.

Clinical case and commentary on how physicians should respond when confronted by medication requests from parents of children with mood and concentration disorders.

Trauma care presumes informed consent for treatment, but resident supervision is required within a training structure of graduated responsibility.

Family presence in the trauma bay is not entirely analogous to family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and requires a chaperone system.

Laborists have ethical obligations to their patients and professional obligations to their patients’ obstetricians.

A deliberative approach to responding to needs and vulnerabilities of unrepresented patients can help make the most of having too little information.

Commentary by Aveena Kochar, MD, and Alia Chisty, MS, MD Co-creative teams can overcome conflict by drawing on quality improvement principles.

Physicians need to inform parents about the limited effectiveness of growth hormone therapy in satisfying the treatment goals of children with idiopathic short stature.

Physicians need to inform parents about the limited effectiveness of growth hormone therapy in satisfying the treatment goals of children with idiopathic short stature.