While some physicians try to avoid ethics consultations, their participation can be essential for good patient care.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics opinions related to ethics consultations and ethics committees in health care institutions.

The DDR requires organ donors to be dead according to legal criteria prior to organ removal, and it’s rooted in fears of civil and criminal liability.

Although organ donation conflicts with self-interest, because donation is vital to the community, interventions to increase it are ethically justified.

Standard treatment of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes includes a pathway when “cost is a major issue.” Whether it’s just to do so remains unclear.

This graffiti-esque mosaic considers legacies of slavery and segregation manifested in present-day health inequity.

One health system’s development and validation of inequity measures across patient groups demonstrates an approach that could be nationally scalable.

The opioid crisis, maternal death, and COVID-19 underscore trust as foundational to public health and call for redefinition of what it means to be a US clinician.

The Flexner Report marginalized schools that produce more than their fair share of physicians confronting inequities in US responses to COVID-19.