Climate change mitigation reforms of government policy, medical curricula, and health professions organizations should be the focus of physician advocacy.

Decriminalization of the sex trade speaks to medical ethics by reducing sex workers’ vulnerability to violence, exploitation, stigma, and trafficking.

Medical-legal partnerships can help detainees by motivating health, safety, and human rights standards in detention centers.

For health professions and ethics journals, decisions about what is published and promoted profoundly influence humanity’s well-being across time and place.

White Coats for Black Lives advocates that American medicine address racial inequities in health and health care by promoting diversity, eliminating implicit racial bias in the physician workforce, and advocating for equitable social structures.

The Nordic model policy option for addressing commercial sex—which exempts sellers from criminal penalties—offers several potential advantages.

Physicians need to become more involved in the public debate regarding issues of medicine, science, and evolution.

Should old folks who have lived their lives be allowed to place a huge economic burden on the young by using a disproportionate amount of limited Medicare resources for medical care?

The current Medicare operation—reimbursing medical goods and services to a growing number of people without basing the reimbursement benefit on the actual cost of the services—is unsustainable, but there are some possible remedies.

Physician organizations have an ethical obligation to advocate for general improvement of public health, even if it is sometimes at the expense of interests of medical professionals.