Discussion of a journal article about an attempt to measure empathy among physicians who care for the incarcerated.

Readers are referred to a chapter of a book and then asked to consider the importance of empathy in the patient-physician relationship.

The participatory decision-making model for patient-physician relationships is the best approach for addressing the individual family-related and social influences that stress that relationship.

How should evidence be used to interpret and inform whether to accommodate patients’ requests for clinicians with specific traits?

Physicians can help reduce the large number of patients who do not take their prescription drugs due to the high cost by proactively discussing the topic of drug costs during the clinical encounter and developing a plan for assistance.

The theme editor argues that the art and science of medicine combine to create the moral practice that is clinical judgment.

Two researchers argue in favor of training physicians to better understand and practice the tenets of medical professionalism.

A neglected topic in medical ethics is the unique barriers to error disclosure faced by anatomic and clinical pathologists.

Physicians need to understand when it may be appropriate to let patients get involved in medical decision-making and when it may be necessary to provide their personal medical judgment.

Because knowledge about the efficacy of long-term opioid use is lacking, decisions about opioid treatment for chronic nonmalignant pain should be guided by a six-step decision making process that is based in clinical ethics.