How should evidence be used to interpret and inform whether to accommodate patients’ requests for clinicians with specific traits?

“Very important persons” care contributes to multitiered, racially segregated health service delivery streams that influence clinicians’ conceptions of what patients deserve from them.

Principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence guide trauma-informed care. Care ethics should also support this framework for responding to the health needs of trafficked patients.

The principle of double effect and proportionate reason can be a useful way of assessing actions as moral or immoral.

A physician attorney argues that the best way to ensure that physicians don't refuse to treat patients is to create a system in which their medical education is fully funded and they must repay a debt to society.

Expressing political views in a professional setting can be detrimental to the patient-physician relationship.

Expressing political views in a professional setting can be detrimental to the patient-physician relationship.

Pediatricians should not opt out of caring for children of same-sex couples due to anti-gay beliefs or bias.

The default principle—that someone is free to do what he or she desires in the absence of a compelling reason why he or she should not—may make it possible to resolve ethical disputes without recourse to a particular moral framework.

Julian Savulescu's writing on conscientious objection is guided by an emphasis on the principle of distributive justice that does not allow religion to have a special status as justification.