Weight loss is not a safe, effective, or permanent method of health promotion, and pharmacotherapeutical approaches pose specific risks to adolescents. 

This commentary considers how clinician-governors should respond to how Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scores are applied.

Health professional students often attend lectures equating resiliency with self-care.

VCA candidates need clinicians to help them become familiar with experimental surgery eligibility criteria, prior and possible outcomes, and potential risks and benefits.

Facial transplantation must establish approaches to assessing QoL in candidates and recipients that use meaningful outcomes.

Transplant physicians must respect indecisive patients’ autonomy while continuing to educate them during their progress towards transplantation.

Physicians must respond with care to all patients’ health needs, even those demanding complex, expensive interventions.