A capabilities model helps reframe health care as shared between a clinical team and some of our most vulnerable patients.

For patients historically stripped of control over their reproductive health, consideration of past violations and transparent discussion are key.

Native Americans suffer poverty and significant health inequity and are chronically underrepresented in the clinician workforce.

Using focus groups to obtain stakeholder feedback can lead to epistemic injustices if the decision-making process is not perceived as procedurally fair.

Patients leaving against medical advice draw attention to intersections of tort law, federal and state regulations, and clinical ethics.

Clinical decision supports create ethically complex risks and need to align patients’ and caregivers’ professed values.

Framing risk management goals as patient centered and evidence based helps align them with goals of ethics.

A nudge is an intervention designed to prompt a person to “voluntarily” make a choice intended by those who altered an environment or situation to yield that choice.

Perhaps machine learning systems trained on patients’ electronic health records and social media footprints could be used as decision aids when patients lack capacity or face overwhelming decisions.

Health care organizations have obligations to support all patients mothering newborns in making informed choices about formula and breast feeding.