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.

Some technological and policy strategies for increasing organ supplies are ethically and legally proven to work. Consider best next steps for global education efforts to raise organ donation awareness.

Because transplantation for methylmalonic acidaemia prioritizes quality of life over long-term outcomes, justice and utility must be considered.

The Holocaust and the racial hygiene doctrine that helped rationalize it still overshadow contemporary debates about using gene editing for disease prevention.

Equal access is a goal even when patients present with taboo illnesses. But, the date of a patient’s last drink still matters.

For an adolescent patient with extreme anorexia nervosa, steps for expressing compassion during a force intervention need to be clear.

Standards for posttransplant graft/survival rates do not reward transplant centers for performing riskier transplants to increase population benefit.