Shared decision making is practically difficult to implement in mental health practice but remains an ethical ideal for motivating therapeutic capacity.

Shared decision making is complex with patients who are adolescents, whose relational autonomy is still emerging.

Dr Laura Guidry-Grimes helps us consider whether and which decisions can be shared with people experiencing mental illnesses.

Physicians with a mental illness can have good, empathic relationships with their patients, even if patients know of their condition.

As larger organizations become more influential in the health care sector, the Code can help physicians navigate those organizations’ influence on their practices.

Upcoding and misrepresenting clinical information constitute fraud, cost a lot, and can result in patient harm and unnecessary procedures and prescriptions.

Tara Montgomery and Dr Zackary Berger discuss how to address some health care cultures’ negative influences on service delivery and quality.

Medical expert witnesses are ethically and legally obligated to provide honest testimony that meets the standards of the Daubert test.

When we approach art with awe and treat medicine as serious business, perhaps we’re depriving ourselves of the funniest tool in the health and wellness toolbox.

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