Partnering with and engaging community members means expressing respect for community members’ on-the-ground experience.

Palliation goals should inform MCS therapy duration, symptom management, and advance care planning and facilitate communication.

Clarifying both patients’ and professionals’ values fosters good clinical decision making, particularly in situations of uncertainty.

Pervasive and recurrent gun violence compels health care organizations to integrate violence prevention, intervention, and recidivism reduction as critical dimensions of good trauma care.

The convening power of clinical ethics committees stems from their reputation for fairness and procedural legitimacy in addressing and resolving ethically complex cases.

Equitable transitions of care for incarcerated patients returning to the community will require physician advocacy and systems-level change.

The communication training program at University of Washington Medical Center aims to develop best practices for effective pathology communication.

A deliberative approach to responding to needs and vulnerabilities of unrepresented patients can help make the most of having too little information.

Four MDGs directly concern public health, and public health schools should be involved in meeting them.

Exploitation can be exacerbated when health professions students’ educational goals are overemphasized relative to patients’ and communities’ needs.