Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law.

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

Judgmentalism applied to patients from poor and marginalized communities exacerbates health inequity and illuminates the importance of contextualizing a patient’s care.

Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization.

Countering the prevailing thought that more medical testing and treatment is always better can be achieved by creating a forum for open discussion of costs and value to prevent patient harm from overuse.

Amendments to the Common Rule and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) raise questions about broad consent and sale of health data.