Asymmetry in knowledge and power between (1) physicians and patients and (2) physician educators and their students creates a climate for possible abuse in both sets of relationships.

Exploitation can be exacerbated when health professions students’ educational goals are overemphasized relative to patients’ and communities’ needs.

To succeed, medical teams must work to develop team cognition and coordination, a cooperative spirit, and active fostering of teamwork.

When health professionals work collaboratively, scope of practice becomes more about defining roles and responsibilities among team members than about maintaining separate territories.

Physicians need better education in nutrition science. Referring patients to nutrition experts for dietary counseling would motivate food availability and intake assessment as routine. Good clinical counseling considers patients' cultural traditions and environmental sustainability as key ethical values.

Because it affects collegiality, training, and patient care, callous humor should not be tolerated, especially when directed at patients.

Geriatric psychiatry offers stable career prospects and opportunities to express humanitarian impulses by working closely with elders.

Cultural failure to recognize tacit knowledge explains why credential-based knowledge has higher status and prioritizes clinicians who do not care on an hour-to-hour basis for most of our country’s elders.

Antimicrobial resistance is a looming pandemic, and poor health outcomes will not be borne equitably.

Office-based gynecologic procedures are reimbursed at lower rates than similar office urology and dermatology procedures.