Interventions’ influences on decision making situate clinician performance evaluations in key ways.

Social media platforms and organizational websites that facilitate organ procurement should respect potential donors’ autonomy and confidentiality.

The communication training program at University of Washington Medical Center aims to develop best practices for effective pathology communication.

When a patient is incompetent and unrepresented, alternative strategies must be implemented to document and try to rectify an error.

A guardian’s request to sterilize a woman with intellectual disabilities is not ethically justifiable unless the woman assents and it is to her benefit.

When errors happen, too often clinicians are at odds with each other about how to respond to a patient or a patient’s loved ones after that patient suffers harm.

When a clinician refuses to do a procedure consistent with standard of care for a patient, legal resources can be helpful.

Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused.

Alternatives to suing could help open communication between injured patients and clinicians.

“Contraception Options” considers the general social and cultural expectation and norm that women’s bodies should be the sites of contraception.