Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law.

Lack of ethical, legal, and clinical consensus about best practice sometimes combines with a poor clinical evidence base.

Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization.

Division between medical and dental care exacerbates health inequity and forces many with compromised access to seek oral health care in emergency departments.

A public health approach to violence is required to help 21st-century policing evolve.

Benefits of physicians’ work with law enforcement personnel in field-based operations are ethically rich and complex.

CIT programs are partnerships between police and the mental health community members developed with little involvement from psychiatrists.

Dr Jeremy Ackerman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “Tactical Emergency Casualty Care and the Art of Practicing Nonmaleficence in Harm’s Way.”