Patients’ perceptions of how much input they have in making health decisions influence therapeutic alliance and outcomes.

Public and self-stigma negatively influence patients’ quality of life, employment, and housing opportunities.

Some clinicians cite absence of long-term data to justify not fully deferring surgery for children with DSD, and legal restrictions of early procedures are also at play.

Fostering transgender patients’ sense of agency should be a clinical and ethical priority.

Dr Nat Mulkey and Dr Carl G. Streed Jr join Ethics Talk to discuss their article coauthored with Dr Barbara M. Chubak, "A Call to Update Standard of Care for Children With Differences in Sex Development."

Guidance about sedation to unconsciousness and medically ineffective interventions can be applied to surgical palliation.

Clinician-family communication in surgical intensive care units should focus on reducing value incongruence and nonbeneficial operations.

Some clinicians offering image-guided procedures have little training in palliative medicine, which is both a clinical and an ethical problem.

COVID-19 underscores historical precedent for fear-driven responses that disregard autonomy among persons with low income who are also persons of color.

Involuntary commitment is often traumatic and can fracture already fragile relationships persons experiencing homeless have.