COVID-19 underscores historical precedent for fear-driven responses that disregard autonomy among persons with low income who are also persons of color.

Involuntary commitment is often traumatic and can fracture already fragile relationships persons experiencing homeless have.

Clinicians and police are positioned to help persons experiencing homelessness, but little has been said about how their best impulses to serve could most productively overlap.

Chicago Street Medicine implements HHC to improve health outcomes and care continuity for patients experiencing homelessness.

Hospital lawyers’ practices shape risk management operations, influence clinicians’ morale, and affect patient care.

Commentary by Aveena Kochar, MD, and Alia Chisty, MS, MD Co-creative teams can overcome conflict by drawing on quality improvement principles.

Psychiatric emergencies, coping stress reactions, and iatrogenic injuries are not responded to with the same vigor as acute medical decompensation. That needs to change.

Both physicians and pharmacists have responsibilities to ensure that opioids are prescribed and dispensed for legitimate medical purposes and to meet legal requirements.

Transitions in relabeling personalized medicine as precision medicine, precision health, or wellness genomics reflect shifting the locus of responsibility for health from individuals to clinicians and in shifting focus from genetic risk to genetic enhancement.

Physicians can improve diets of patients who live in food deserts by providing nutrition materials, training in food preparation, and promoting nutritious food availability in communities where they practice.