Some patients who need general medical care before a dental intervention can suffer increased risk for poor outcomes if they have compromised access to care.

How should evidence be used to interpret and inform whether to accommodate patients’ requests for clinicians with specific traits?

During or after conflict, a clinician might be required to provide evidence to an official investigatory body or court.

“Very important persons” care contributes to multitiered, racially segregated health service delivery streams that influence clinicians’ conceptions of what patients deserve from them.

This narrative illuminates need for students and clinicians to be well prepared to face ethically and structurally complex realities of identifying and responding to children.

Principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence guide trauma-informed care. Care ethics should also support this framework for responding to the health needs of trafficked patients.

Pediatricians should not opt out of caring for children of same-sex couples due to anti-gay beliefs or bias.

Some question whether plastic surgeons bear responsibility for promoting suspect norms of beauty, given that certain types of cosmetic enhancements reinforce common conceptions of normality that are harmful to society.