Specialization has substantially influenced perioperative communication and collaboration between anesthesiologists and surgeons.

A drawing explores equilibrium through music, medicine, and art.

Social work perspectives on whether prescribers should authorize opioid refills emphasize the importance of multidisciplinary approaches to patient self-determination.

Considering chronic opioid use when planning elective surgery would likely enhance team communication, decrease stigma, and facilitate care transitioning and long-term planning.

A 3-step analgesic ladder was introduced in 1986 and needs change. Surgical interventions could reduce opioid use and motivate expansion of current pain management approaches.

Responding to opioid use disorder as a US public health crisis requires all clinicians to recognize addiction as a treatable disease.

CHWs’ work underscores need for clinicians and organizations to respond to deeply entrenched, long-standing patterns of oppression in ways that draw upon lived experience.

Neglected examples of iatrogenic harm involve persons with severe mental illness who seek inpatient care.

Antiracist approaches to decriminalizing acute exacerbations of mental illness require clinicians’ engagement in educating, training, and policy making.