Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria.

Co-creation initiatives in health care have potential to support health equity but require a redistribution of power and a common vision in order to succeed.

Most women requesting pregnancy termination have already decided to undergo an abortion, but some jurisdictions have implemented strategies to induce doubt and regret.

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

Until the mid-20th century, birth in the United States for Latinx Indigenous peoples was an ancestral ceremony guided by midwives and traditional healers.

Training in a segregated health care system means that health professions students and trainees learn bias and experience helplessness and burnout.

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.

When deciding whether a pregnant woman will take antidepressants that pose a slight risk to the fetus, the patient and doctor must each make value-based determinations about whether absolute protection of the fetus is more important than preventing the mother’s probable suffering.