This photograph of a kaleidoscope of potentially life-saving and potentially life-threatening pills suggests ethical conflict inherent in clinicians’ strivings to meet patients’ pain relief needs without contributing crises of drug diversion.

Using crowdsourced information in health professions education can help motivate critical appraisal, question asking, and evidence evaluation skill development, especially among “digital natives.”

End-stage heart failure patients can experience depression along with their chronic illness. Multidisciplinary responses are critical.

Regulations’ negative influence on patient-physician relationships can be mitigated by innovation in decision science.

Responding to patients violating US health commerce regulations can be critical when they buy and use unproven interventions.

This image aims to promote reflection about patients’ feelings of sadness, despair, helplessness, and uncertainty upon being diagnosed.

Modern surgeons are diverse, socially adept, and differ in other important ways from the stereotype of a technically gifted white male with poor bedside manner.

The DSM-5 Task Force’s handling of the ethical controversy over the bereavement exclusion demonstrates the need for more inclusive deliberative processes.

Pain management of adult and pediatric burn patients should be individualized and include nonpharmacological treatment.

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