Adhering too strictly to biomedical thinking about diagnosis can prevent clinicians from empathically engaging with patients and helping them navigate their illness experiences.

During immediate and long-term recovery periods, decisions must account for patients’ personal goals and possible clinical outcomes and should clarify what recovery means.

Clinician-researchers deeply invested in data gathering are still obliged to respect a patient-subject’s right to stop being in research.

Success depends on strong support, rehabilitation, adherence, and social integration.

Pharmaceuticals make symptoms and biological drug targets more visible but can render individual and community suffering less visible.

This pen and ink drawing reimagines a white coat in the context of medicine’s realistic, not idealized, dynamism.

Social work perspectives on whether prescribers should authorize opioid refills emphasize the importance of multidisciplinary approaches to patient self-determination.

Treatment-resistant schizophrenia can create a high disease burden for some patients, making it hard to get good outcomes.

This commentary on a case considers the ethical feasibility of palliative psychiatry in the care of patients with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa.

Some individuals with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa experience dramatically degraded quality of life in the face of refractory illness and compulsory treatment.